Almost there!

Well after a rocky start we made it to Europe. Both flights so far have been pretty decent. One downside of having to rebook our Toronto to London flight to the morning of the 4th was that I was planning on sleeping through the entire flight, but instead I was up the entire flight. But there is always a silver lining, the nice thing about long international flights is that you usually have your own personal T.V. and I finally caught up on some "chick flicks" that a certain husband of mine refuses to watch with me! We had only a short layover in London, so we didn't make it into town to sight-see as we had planned, but I think perhaps that was for the best, there is always next time!

The flight to Cairo was only about 5 hours but since we were in business class for this flight we were both able to get a solid 2-3 hours of sleep, not much, but I'll take it. International travel is such a bizarre thing. I don't know whether to be tired or awake and I don't know whether I should be eating breakfast, lunch, or dinner, so I just try to sleep when its dark and eat what they bring me and trust that my body will catch up with me.

We are looking forward to reaching our final destination and meeting up with Sue and Grandad to commence our tour of Turkey and Greece, but first a few hours to kill in the Cairo airport....thank goodness for our Presidents Club membership!

Away We'll Fly

It's amazing how quickly time goes by. With our Europe trip less than three months away, it was time to start working out the logistics, and the first thing on my list was to book the flights. Luckily we were fortunate enough to have additional frequent flyer miles, even after booking our flights to Australia this December, and were able to use these additional miles to book our Europe flights as well. As planned, we will leave the U.S. on our anniversary, the third of June. Our flight leaves Indianapolis at 7:50pm on Thursday, June 3rd, which means we will likely share an anniversary meal together at the Indianapolis airport as we wait to embark on our journey. We will have a two hour layover in Toronto before we jump over the pond, arriving in London at 11:25am on Friday, June 4th. We found it was easiest to book our reward flights going in/out of London/Paris, but as you recall, we are scheduled to start our trip in Istanbul, Turkey on Saturday, June 5th, so we will only be in London for the better part of the day, departing at 10:30pm Friday, June 4th for Cairo, Egypt where we will again have a few hours before boarding our final flight (by this time I am certain we will be ready to fall into a bed for a good night's sleep) at 10:45am on Saturday, June 5th. We will arrive at our final destination (or our first destination depending on how you look at it) at 1:00pm on Saturday, June 5th and will check into our hotel in Istanbul to get a good nights rest as we will hit the ground running the very next day.

The weeks that follow our arrival in Istanbul are sure to be amazing, exciting, exhausting, among many other things as we make our way from Istanbul, Turkey to Paris, France. After nearly two months of travel I am certain we will be sad to end our journey, but will be eager to return home to family, friends, and of course, our beloved puppy Milo. We will leave Paris at 7:20am on Tuesday, July 27th and will arrive back in Indianapolis (via Lisbon, Portugal and Newark, New Jersey) at 10:18pm that same evening.

It is nice to know how our journey will begin and end, but I cannot wait to see what we encounter along the way!