Today is the day that my first solo trip overseas begins. I started off my day going to bed about 1am, however that was essentially 2am thanks to the clocks moving ahead one hour over the night. I got up sometime around 8am and got out of my apartment around 9am. I made a stop at Publix to make some photocopies and then to Wal-Mart, so I could pick up a few things I needed. I think I arrived at the airport around 9:40, but it wasnt until about 15 minutes later the parking lot bus picked me up. As the bus approached the terminal, I noticed long lines at the curbside check-in counters. I started to hope that this would not be the case once I got inside. However, the line for Continental was quite long, and had to loop around even. After about 40 minutes of standing I made it to the kiosk to get my boarding pass. You know the security line was pretty bad too. It stretched almost half way to the center food court, yet surprisingly took probably only 15 minutes to clear.
The flight out of Orlando was pretty average. We boarded on time, and made departed in a timely manner. However, after finding my seat, I found out that I would be sharing my row with two kids. While they were past the screaming and crying age, they were rather annoying. They kept playing with the tray tables, and were quite loud. Everyone around that row at some point probably told them to stop. Luckily noise canceling headphones helped out a bit.
We arrived in Newark about 2 hours later thanks to tailwinds, but were probably 20 minutes late thanks to having to sit to wait for our gate to open up. After disembarking, I wandered a bit before settling on getting a hot dog to hold me over until dinner on my flight to Zurich. As I write this I have about 2 hours until my flight, so really about an hour before I need to be in the gate area. The flight will take approximately 8 hours, and ill arrive in Zurich tomorrow morning at 7:30.
I am pretty excited about the trip, and cannot wait to hurry up and get on the plane. I have a very packed itinerary, or at least, there are many things I would like to try and do; we will see what I manage to accomplish.
My next update will be sometime tomorrow. If I do not get a chance to from the airport in Zurich, then I will when I get to my hotel in Interlaken. I would upload some pictures, but the internet is rather unreliable.