Vienna!

After a long day and night of traveling, we are almost there--we're currently at the Vienna, Austria airport. I'm not going to lie, I wish we could stay here and take a quick stop along our way. However, our plane leaves in about forty minutes, so my Austrian experience will be confined to unloading off the plane onto the tarmac and onto a shuttle. Austria seems really warm and REALLY humid. And beautiful, of course. Austrian Airlines was kinda cool, too--the flight attendants wore red shirts, skirts, shoes, and yes, even red nylons. Stylin'. The airplane food was actually good, too--nothing gourmet, but definitely better than salted peanuts and pretzels.

Well, we've already had a glitch in our trip. There were two flights yesterday of Jerusalem Center kids leaving Salt Lake for Chicago at two different times. I was in the earlier group of 60 students who had to leave at 7:45, but my roomie, Ashley, was on the later flight at 10 a.m. with the remaining 20 students. My group had a 4 1/2 hour layover in Chicago, and the other group was going to join us on the flight for Vienna. However, I got a call yesterday when we landed in Chicago, and Ash told me that their flight had been delayed 45 minutes, and would be delayed another hour and a half, causing them to miss their connection! Well, I haven't talked to her since (I was on a plane for nine hours), but rumor has it that group is going to fly to Chicago today, stay the night, fly to Germany and spend the day there, and get to Israel on Friday. I'm not going to lie...I'm a bit jealous of their little detour :)

Other than that, my trip has been great--everyone going to Jerusalem is extremely nice and so fun. I've made some new friends, recognize a few faces, and am stoked to be with these kids for the next eight weeks.