5/9/13 Flights
After a couple days of laundry and packing, I was ready to go this morning. Much to my dismay, I received an automated call around 11 this morning informing me that my flight from Greenville to Dulles Airport in Washington, DC was going to be delayed by two hours. It wouldn’t be too bad, except I only had an hour of a layover in DC, so I would miss my flight to Brussels. After calling the airline to no prevail, we decided to go on to GSP and get some help when I checked in. It took nearly an hour, but I was able to work with the airline agent to arrange for all five of us who were leaving from GSP to arrive in Brussels just a few hours later than we normally would. We got a connecting flight from GSP to Dulles to London to Brussels. I am so ready for this trip to start, but I’m really looking forward to the long flight over the Atlantic so I can get some sleep.
The layover in DC was quick, but I led our group through the airport. I don't know why they think it's such a big deal that I was paying attention...all I did was read the signs and walk fast. As we were walking through, they decided they needed to exchange currency as if they wouldn't have the chance at other airports where we would have longer wait times. I was getting really antsy and wanted to head on. We were lucky that we arrived at the gate when we did because they were boarding the last groups.
After landing in London, we had a couple of hours of layover, so we sat at a restaurant and they drank. I didn't get anything but I did taste some salmon. I'm pretty sure it was raw but it was really good!
We took a taxi from Brussels airport to the hotel and found a large group of other students from our group waiting on us in the lobby. We were unable to check in because the rooms weren't clean yet. I didn't get into my room until 4pm. There were some issues with the rooming assignments because one girl wanted to be with my roommates since they got to know each other on their flight. I had no problem with that, except that I wanted to switch into a room with a friend I met before the trip. I won't go into details here, but feel free to send me a message on http://www.facebook.com/IzzyWard for the rest.
We had a quick orientation meeting where we got some mass-transit passes and then we went out to dinner for traditional Belgian cuisine. We had some sort of fried cheese square for an appetizer (it may have had crab meet in it; I'll never know), large chunks of roast beef in gravy (the taste was less than spectacular), thick fries, and something that resembled clover sprigs for our entree. Dessert was amazing! It was a frozen chocolate mousse with chocolate powder and some egg-based sauce (it tasted about like flan).
About of our group went out to bars afterward, but I was extremely in need of some R&R.
After a couple days of laundry and packing, I was ready to go this morning. Much to my dismay, I received an automated call around 11 this morning informing me that my flight from Greenville to Dulles Airport in Washington, DC was going to be delayed by two hours. It wouldn’t be too bad, except I only had an hour of a layover in DC, so I would miss my flight to Brussels. After calling the airline to no prevail, we decided to go on to GSP and get some help when I checked in. It took nearly an hour, but I was able to work with the airline agent to arrange for all five of us who were leaving from GSP to arrive in Brussels just a few hours later than we normally would. We got a connecting flight from GSP to Dulles to London to Brussels. I am so ready for this trip to start, but I’m really looking forward to the long flight over the Atlantic so I can get some sleep.
The layover in DC was quick, but I led our group through the airport. I don't know why they think it's such a big deal that I was paying attention...all I did was read the signs and walk fast. As we were walking through, they decided they needed to exchange currency as if they wouldn't have the chance at other airports where we would have longer wait times. I was getting really antsy and wanted to head on. We were lucky that we arrived at the gate when we did because they were boarding the last groups.
After landing in London, we had a couple of hours of layover, so we sat at a restaurant and they drank. I didn't get anything but I did taste some salmon. I'm pretty sure it was raw but it was really good!
We took a taxi from Brussels airport to the hotel and found a large group of other students from our group waiting on us in the lobby. We were unable to check in because the rooms weren't clean yet. I didn't get into my room until 4pm. There were some issues with the rooming assignments because one girl wanted to be with my roommates since they got to know each other on their flight. I had no problem with that, except that I wanted to switch into a room with a friend I met before the trip. I won't go into details here, but feel free to send me a message on http://www.facebook.com/IzzyWard for the rest.
We had a quick orientation meeting where we got some mass-transit passes and then we went out to dinner for traditional Belgian cuisine. We had some sort of fried cheese square for an appetizer (it may have had crab meet in it; I'll never know), large chunks of roast beef in gravy (the taste was less than spectacular), thick fries, and something that resembled clover sprigs for our entree. Dessert was amazing! It was a frozen chocolate mousse with chocolate powder and some egg-based sauce (it tasted about like flan).
About of our group went out to bars afterward, but I was extremely in need of some R&R.
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