Sunday, September 03, 2006
Home Again!
Ah, it's good to be home again.
We got up early to catch our 7:25am flight from Helsinki to Frankfurt. But, the flight was delayed getting into Frankfurt because Frankfurt was so busy. By the time we landed, we only had about 30 minutes to make our connecting flight. But, since this was a flight to the US, we had to go through another round of screenings and inspections and the line was very very long. It was a madhouse. Passengers were yelling at the security people, the security people were yelling back, and passengers were yelling at each other. Ugly.
We did managed to skip ahead a bit by saying that our flight was already boarding, but we still had to wait in line for about 20 minutes. When we finally got to the screening station, they found my contact lens eye drops (all liquids forbidden). I told them I needed the wetting drops for the dry-air plane ride and actually put a couple drops in my eyes to prove they were not explosives. They let me keep them. We then franticly ran to our departing gate, only to find that they were holding our flight because about a quarter of the booked passengers still had not boarded yet. The plane ended up waiting nearly an hour before finally taking off.
Other than that, it was a smooth and uneventful flight back. I did see a rather large forest fire in the Canadian Rockies, a beautiful look at Rainier, and we practually flew right over the west rim of Mt. St. Helens.
We got up early to catch our 7:25am flight from Helsinki to Frankfurt. But, the flight was delayed getting into Frankfurt because Frankfurt was so busy. By the time we landed, we only had about 30 minutes to make our connecting flight. But, since this was a flight to the US, we had to go through another round of screenings and inspections and the line was very very long. It was a madhouse. Passengers were yelling at the security people, the security people were yelling back, and passengers were yelling at each other. Ugly.
We did managed to skip ahead a bit by saying that our flight was already boarding, but we still had to wait in line for about 20 minutes. When we finally got to the screening station, they found my contact lens eye drops (all liquids forbidden). I told them I needed the wetting drops for the dry-air plane ride and actually put a couple drops in my eyes to prove they were not explosives. They let me keep them. We then franticly ran to our departing gate, only to find that they were holding our flight because about a quarter of the booked passengers still had not boarded yet. The plane ended up waiting nearly an hour before finally taking off.
Other than that, it was a smooth and uneventful flight back. I did see a rather large forest fire in the Canadian Rockies, a beautiful look at Rainier, and we practually flew right over the west rim of Mt. St. Helens.
# posted by Greg @ 3:15 PM 
