The Joys of Travel

Our trip back to the lovely city of Köln was slightly adventuresome. The Sunday after the wedding I was feeling quite smug because I had managed to score us some exit row seats on both segments, and I had discovered that our flight from Newark to Köln did not look full at all. We quite enjoyed the extra leg room, and quickly realized that it will be hard to ever go back to the regular Economy Class (this also is full proof of why we never can fly First Class). As hoped, we managed to get an extra seat on the second flight, which made it possible to lie down, though Chris still did some upright and fairly uncomfortable looking sleeping, when he wasn't enthralled with the quality movies involving either dogs or Amanda Bynes (we've seen She's the Man at least four times in the last year)...
However, our pleasant journey did have a bump when we arrived in Köln only to find that one of our four pieces of luggage had made it. There were about 15 others who also were missing some of their luggage, which led us to believe that an entire cart of luggage didn't make it on the plane. After waiting in the painstakingly slow line, we filed our report and headed home somewhat empty handed. Thankfully (at least for me) the bag that made it was full of my stuff and not one of the ones filled with winter clothes. As promised, the bags made it to Köln the following day and were nicely delivered, so I guess it was nice not to have to lug four bags home from the airport. Of course this doesn't compare at all to misplacing a passport, like some people we know....