In a land far far away...

About a month ago I traveled to a land far far away and my story goes like this.....

I decided last year that I wanted to go see and surprise my sister in Germany for her 30th birthday.  So, I started saving and obtained my passport.

My flight was to leave OKC at 5:40pm, shortly after getting through security it was announced that my flight was delayed 20 minutes.  A short time later it was announced we would be delayed 2 hours!  Oh no!  I only had a 3 hour lay over in Atlanta to catch my intercontinental flight.  Due to all the delays there was no gate for our plane to pull up to, so we had to exit the plane on its steps walk to the terminal and up the stairs into the terminal.  I literally had to run for 20-25 minutes to the gate and when I'm about 20 yards away I hear the announcement that the gate was closing on my flight!  Pick it up Kristi!  I threw my boarding pass in the airline hostess' face and said "I'm on that flight!"  She told me to run they were closing the gate, I barely made it.  Whew!

I flew from Atlanta to Amsterdam, Netherlands, once in Amsterdam I had to walk a long ways to my next gate and half way through the airport there were guards, customs agents and a security line.  I never felt like I had left a secure area, so I started to panic that I was in the wrong place.  Thankfully it was not busy and one of the agents spoke to me and asked if he could help, that I looked uneasy.  I was on the right track and continued onto my gate.  From Amsterdam I flew to Bremen, Germany.  Here my BIL picked me up and we were on our way to surprise my sis!  We took the autobahn and this is how fast he got up to:

That is 124 miles an hour!!!  I decided it probably wasn't safe for me to have the camera in his face while he was driving that fast, hee hee.

When we arrived at their flat (townhouse), I pulled my sweatshirt over my head, rang the doorbell and turned around.  When she opened the door,

It was perfect!

We visited the North Sea,

Papenburg,



McDonalds, for a McRib that you can't get in the US anymore,

and the old fashion fried apple pies,

The Netherlands,

took pictures with statues,

had a big 3-0 party,

played golf (she did, I watched),

visited a windmill farm,

the railroad tracks,

and a church that was built 10 years before Columbus discovered America!

I took her a small gift for each day I was there, but her BIG gift was a pair of sandals that she wanted like mine. (they are so much cuter in person)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KANDI!!  I hope you enjoyed my time there as much I enjoyed being there! 

And then it was time to leave, sniff sniff

My flights home were good, I had the same stops as before.  As soon as we landed in Atlanta I made it through customs and headed for some American food!  The first thing I saw was Popeye's, yummy!  Fried chicken and a Dr. Pepper, it doesn't get any more American!!  We were delayed in Atlanta for a couple hours and I finally made it home 24 hours after my day began!

I have so many memories from my trip I can't even attempt to list them all!  It was the trip of my life!

I love you Kandi!!