March 7th and 8th...Day 1 and 2 consisted of 30 hours of travel from Mabank to Dallas, from Dallas to London, from London to Athens, Greece! It should've been more like 18. We tried to sleep on the flights but some of us aren't as lucky as others:) Katie was able to sleep pretty much the entire 9 hour flight from Dallas to London...lucky girl!
We got our final itinerary a few days before we left...
Packing 11 days worth of clothing and essentials in one carry on and one backpack wasn't real easy for us. We're not known for being the lightest packers...
Ready!!
Two groups had left that morning and now it's our group's turn...
Mabank School Bus to DFW Airport!
We learned, while in line to check in, that we'd be on a "double decker" air bus. What?! I had to google this! Yes, we were on this double decker air bus to London. We thought we'd be more impressed with the staircase and all but if you weren't looking for it, you wouldn't have even known it was there.
We found out about now that our flight would be delayed from Dallas to London and then it turned out that we were about 20 minutes late for our connecting flight so that made for a long time of waiting!!
Flight one...9 hours long:)
Our first full meal on a plane;)
I didn't eat much of it, but it was still neat!
Landed in London...now to wait on the connecting flight...
We enjoyed Giraffe World Kitchen at the Heathrow Airport. We don't even know if it's breakfast, lunch or dinner right now:)
We landed in Athens, Greece, about 2am on the 9th!
Airport signs in Greek!
So glad we made it!!
Out to the bus, with our EF director, Kleio!
Made it to our Hotel!
Hotel London in Athens, Greece
Rooming with Keeley...it was now about 4am and we'd have to be up at 6:30 for breakfast and the 15 hour day, so we decided just to get ready!!
I brought a mini-iron and hoped it would work well and it did...with our trusty little plug adapters, of course!
Got to keep all my times straight while we're here...Ryan and Fyn will be in Colorado for part of this trip!
