Last Pre-Baby Trip Day 8 (27 April, 2007)

We got to the airport early and spent up the rest of our money (except for 30 cents) on croissants, pretzels and snicker bars. The wait for the flight from Frankfurt was very easy and we were told we had bulkhead seating which promised a much less claustrophobic trip. We had to check a bag due to the two bottles of wine we had bought in Witzenhausen, but we managed to shuffle our carryons in order to accomodate the discards from the checked bag.

We had several conversations with a German woman who was flying with her 1-year old and after discussing Laura being pregnant for several minutes, she asked Laura 'Where is your final destination today?' Laura answered 'August'. That woman didn't seem to want to talk to us after that.

Overall this was a much better flight for us than the one flying over, and customs in Philadelphia was a breeze. What wasn't a breeze was trasferring from the International terminal to the Domestic terminal...it felt like a 3-mile hike and we weren't ready for it.

Upon landing in Chicago we were some of the first off the plane and we made it all the way to the luggage claim, and guess what...they lost our bag. Not only our bag, but roughly 10 other people from our flight from Philadelphia were miffed for the same reason.

They promised us that our luggage would either be on the next flight (scheduled to land in 20 minutes) or they would deliver it to our house the next day.

It did eventually show up on the next flight, and we were able to get home by 10:00pm. It was a great trip and definitely worth re-visiting years from now when Junior is able to enjoy parts of it.