Traveling

May 9-Knoxville. Arrive at the airport at 12 PM, find out our plane ran into a fuel truck, and caused damage to the plane. We sat around until 6:30 to get to Dulles because we all went and bought tickets through a travel agency who work directly with United and Lufthansa. This caused the tickets to be non endorsable, so we were stuck in Knoxville until United decided to ready another plane. We got into Dulles around 9 to find out the next flight to Europe was not until 7:00 the next night. We go to a Holiday Inn and sleep for 7 hours.

May 10-Washington DC. Wake up and go into the capital. This trip was a huge blessing because I have never been to DC before. The weather was perfect, around 80, a few clouds in the sky, a little windy. We visited the Vietnam memorial, WWII memorial, Washington Monument, Abraham Lincoln memorial, and the National Archives. We headed back to the airport and worried about not being able to get onto the flight. Flight from Dulles to Franksfurt was 7- ~3AM US time. 

May 11-Frankfurt for the day. We arrived and found out we would be in the airport until atleast 2:30 for the next flight to Sofia. We walked around and found a nike store because one of the guys, Andrew had been walking around barefoot because his sandals hurt his feet so much... We found out we might not be able to have confirmed seets until 7 that night, so it was just more salt in the wound. We got lucky and caught the flight at 2:30 and arrived in Sofia.

It is time for bed for now, but traveling was such an adventure. I failed to mention that United said that they were not going to be able to return our luggage to us until Wednesday or Thursday! More in coming days about the adventure in Bulgaria...

Good night,