What a travel day!

Well, we made it.  It took a really, really long time, but we are finally in Cyprus.  Let me digress…

Keith and I got to PDX with plenty of time.  Because of our mad travel skills, we got through security within 10 minutes.  We left on time and prepared for the long flight.

Once in the air our food arrived…and alcohol (for Keith):

10 hours is a long time to be on a plane…I think because of the excitement of the trip, it was hard for me to sleep.  Thank goodness for our laptop.  Keith played a lot of games…

I think I got about an hour of sleep on the entire flight but I woke up to this:

Good Morning Amsterdam!  Now, I’m hyped up on excitement and ready to go collect my family at the Schipol Airport.  We were circling around a bit because there was a little delay on the ground.  If we came in a bit late, I knew they would too, so I wasn’t too worried.  Well, apparently when you walk through Schipol Airport, they don’t believe in telling you when anything arrives…only departures were on the reader boards.  Uh-oh…that’s a problem…how would I know what gate to find the family?  Now, I have to find a nice Dutch person to help me figure out where they are.  Do you know how hard that is?  Well, after a while, I got the information and found everyone.  YAY!  First thing we did was find a place to plug in all of the electronics:

I was so thirsty and needed water.  Dad decided to be the hero and get water…with his American dollars:

And here is me and my Mommy:

We collected Thea Connie and were ready to find our gate for our Cyprus plane….on the way, we find this artwork that Brit decided to adorn: 

A beautiful addition to the artwork if I do say so myself.  🙂    Now we’re ready to get on the last leg of our trip and here is a picture of my little family:

By this point, I was EXHAUSTED!  I could barely keep my eyes open, but got on the plane and instantly fell asleep.  A short while later, we were handed food and drinks…and apparently, are seated in this section…who knew!:

We have arrived!  Then, we spent a good hour wandering around the airport trying to find the rental car place.  My favorite part of all this is that I have TWO people who can speak Greek and yet, they ask questions to the locals in ENGLISH!  Ugh!  Anyway, finally found it, got our van and realized it was quite difficult to fit 7 of us PLUS luggage…oh my!:

Now…imagine driving in this van…with this chaos…on the wrong side of the car AND the wrong side of the road…in the dark!  We made it to our condo and finally settled in for the night.  Wow.  Today is a low key day, but there will be more to post soon.