Take Me Away: Winning London and Austrian Affairs

Hello from Vienna, Austria! It has been a crazy and tiring 24+ hours, but it has been worth it. We started off for DFW around 2:30 p.m on Friday (the 25th), and flew off to London later that evening. The trip was a looongg 9 or so hours, and the seats were too cramped to find a comfortable enough spot to sleep in. I read most of Emily Giffin's "Baby Proof" on the way (she also wrote "Something Borrowed" and "Something Blue"), and we had some nice lasagna for dinner along with a crossant for breakfast (gotta add in that ginger ale as well, best airplane drink ever). After arriving in London at around 12:30 p.m on Saturday afternoon (6:30 a.m in TX Saturday morning), we found Nick, my brother's classmate from home who is accompanying us on the trip. He had to fly out a couple hours before us and spent 5 hours waiting in London for us to arrive without Wifi at the airport. Then, it was like straight out of a movie. We may have gotten caught up browsing around at all the stuff at Heathrow, and then saw the sign for our gate and it said Gate Closing!!! So Kayla and I ran like there was no tomorrow, while the rest of the crew acted like there wasn't a worry in the world. We made it on the plane 15 minutes before takeoff, and a couple hours later, at around 7:30 p.m, we were here! It's 7 hours ahead now compared to TX. So, after arriving at our first stop, we went and ate some wurst sausages with bread, something called Lagos, which is like fried garlic bread tasting stuff, and then stopped at the cafe for some delicious desserts. The weather is so nice. It's like mid 70's all day, how perfect?! We ran across a fair type deal with a band playing outdoors (not like we could understand German), but now as it's 11 p.m, I think we are all pretty beat. Until tomorrow, auf weidersehen!