A Snag

So, I spoke a bit too soon about everything going as planned. Bryan and I woke up this morning at 5:00 am and were out the door at 5:30 am to catch our "7:45 am" flight (right on schedule). Metro and bus were right on time. At about 6:05 am, Bryan looked back over the itinerary one last time. Our flight's departure was scheduled for 6:00 am.

Realizing any attempt to catch that flight was lost, we arrived at the airport at 6:15. Our airline only has one flight out of Prague a day, at 6:00 am...and the next two days were completely booked. So, to other airline booths we go...the first one had a flight out of Prague at 10:50 am...but was going to cost $800. Needless to say, we went wimpering away from that option. The second window we encountered had just sold its last ticket for the 10:05 am flight...but "fortunate" for us, there was room on the 1:05 pm flight. This flight causes us to miss our train to Southern France today, but turns out that works just fine, because Matt's luggage was lost on his way from Germany to Paris, so we would have had to work around that anyway.

So all in all the cost ended up being about 300 Euros (whatever that is) and a few hours of delay. We are still not sure when we are going to be able to leave for the South of France, or what adventures await us as we try to switch our train tickets...but have no fear, we will be back on track (and just a bit poorer) in no time.

This is one of those things that makes traveling exciting. There should be a test you have to take for this too...how well you can handel life's litle twist and turns while abroad. No week stomaches here...Bryan, Matt and I are all fine with the changes...and have started laughing the day off as a total wash.