We stopped when we got into New Jersey to fill up with gas and buy sandwiches for lunch. Got to the airport way too early. It is only 11:30 and check-in for our flight isn't until 5:30pm. Husband has a headache. We have hours and hours to kill! The only wireless connections I can find are local access and I have to sit on the floor to be near a power outlet. Still we found a Starbucks and had coffee. So that's something.
So eventually we got checked in and on the plane. Though we only had 50 minutes in Munich we caught our connecting flight and arrived as planned in Oslo at 1:10pm. When we sent Audun a message he messaged back that he was still on the train home. They, Audun and Irene, had left 26 hours before us and only arrived home 2 hours before. So we took the train to Stange where Audun picked us up at the station. Here is what happended:
Their journey was a real Saga. They got off from Ithaca all right on wednesday morning, taking the bus to NYC and then out to La Guardia airport. All the planes seemed to have delays except theirs to Boston. However it turned out that the crew was on a flight that was delayed coming in so they still ended up leaving for Boston 3 hrs late. Then there was bad weather in Boston. So bad that their oversees flight was cancelled and they were put up in a hotel. They flew out of Boston at 9am thursday. At Heathrow in London, British Airways refused to honor their ticket since they had missed their connection to Oslo. They offered to sell them new tickets at $350 a piece. There they sat at the airport wondering what to do. There's free internet at Heathrow, so they started surfing. Audun found that Ryan Air could sell them tickets for the 6am flight out of Stanstead. By a stroke of luck there was a train going to Stanstead at 3am which got them there in time. Ryan Air flies into Torp airport giving them an extra hr's train travel home. They still got in sooner for the combined cost of about $280!
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