NYNY

We have safely landed at JFK, though I won’t be able to post this for quite awhile since we have found that getting internet is a pain here. Our flight to NY is totally separate from our flight to Germany- we purchased them at separate times; it’s not a connecting flight. So when we landed we weren’t sure where to go. After talking to about 8 friendly strangers and 1 rude one, taking the Air Train twice, and wandering around lost for awhile we finally found the Air Berlin counter.

Our next flight leaves in about two hours so we are just passing time. In our camera we have a 2GB memory card, and we keep a smaller one in the case to use if we ever need to. Out of boredom on the plane, I put in the smaller card to see if there was anything on it.

After being surprised by this:

I was instantly transported back in time by the memories the pictures brought back. There was this picture, which was taken at a murder mystery party a couple months after Mark and I got married.
When I look at this picture I think of how much our lives have all changed since then. Kelly and Jimmy now have a beautiful home and are getting married in July. Lainy and Joe got married a few months after this picture was taken. And Scott and Becca, who were a brand new couple when this picture was taken, are now engaged.

Then I came across this picture of my family. I don’t remember when it was taken, but we went tubing at Snow Creek and had such a fun day!
I remember Kaydee was going through a rough time, but we had a really great day. I got yelled at for going too fast and running into the hay bales at the bottom. I like this picture because my dad’s hat makes me smile.

And then there were about a zillion pictures of our cat Oliver, who we had just gotten. He looks so small! Now he is bigger than both dogs. He trusted dogs in this picture- now he just wrestles with Hooch.Anyway, all that has nothing to do with travel, but it did make our first plane ride a little more enjoyable. One down….five more to go. We’ll go to sleep at about 5PM CST and wake up about midnight CST…only it will be 7:00 in whatever time zone Germany is in. Then we start our adventure!

***Update: We’ve been sitting in a sports bar making small talk with a random stranger who works for CBS- we got to hear all about their fall line-up. He offered to pay for internet if we would let him use our computer- score!