My pervious blog was about the process it took for us to get to Poland, now I will attempt to fill you in on all things that we have experienced in the last 2 weeks since we left the US!
Let’s start with our plane rides:
We flew out of Philadelphia on Saturday February 12th. We stopped in Newark, NJ then our long flight to Warsaw, Poland. The flight from Philly to Newark was a little bumpy but it was less than an hour flight so not a big deal.
When we got to Newark we checked into the Business lounge and settled in for our layover. Unfortunately, yes I said unfortunately our layover wasn’t long enough for me to drink a full glass of wine. The boys had just gotten their shoes off and their movie players started and they called our flight. Oh well, at least we were headed to Poland now!
The boys were excited to sit in the BIG seats. Spencer took the seat in the front row because there was a big screen in front of the cabin that showed a map of where we were in the air, along with our current flight info (total trip in miles, total duration of flight, time in both Poland and USA, as well as air temp outside the aircraft – I think we got to -72 or something crazy like that) and we all know how Spencer loves his TV. Parker and I sat behind Spencer, and Kevin was supposed to be across the aisle from Spencer but we were lucky and there was one seat in business class not booked and it happened to be the one next to Spencer so Kevin got to sit with him. The boys also loved the first class service on our flight. Spencer was a lot more adventurous with the food they served and tried it all (maybe I need to use a white table cloth on our kitchen table and serve on small white china dishes). In fact, his favorite dish was the cold duck. Kevin made sure not to tell him what it was until after he ate it all – smart man!! Believe it or not, my adventurous eater didn’t eat much but I blame that on the lack of sleep and fact that there was too much for him to play with on his chair.
After dinner (I finally got my glass of wine; ok so I had 2 and I had Bailey’s in my coffee after dinner as well. No reason the kids get to have all the fun) each boy selected a personal movie player and started to watch Night at the Museum 2. Kevin was up late the night before at a company sendoff party in his honor so he was out like a light as soon as his tray was cleared. I started to watch a movie too but then the Mom gene kicked in and I realized that it was 10pm and I needed to get the boys and myself some much needed sleep. It had been a long week and we were off our sleep schedule. So off went the movies and out came the blindfolds, blankets, and pillows. Unfortunately we didn’t get a newer plane that had the seats the fold all the way back, but for a 9 year old and a 6 year old they were fine. It was the 40 something’s in the family that weren’t as comfortable. I think with the time change we only had about 4 hours of sleeping time. Please note I didn’t say we had 4 hours of sleep. I’m pretty sure I didn’t get more than 45 minutes total. Oh well, we were on our way to Poland!
When we landed in Warsaw, it was 9:45am so we headed over to the lounge for some coffee and to log in to my computer so we could cancel services that were no longer available to us (Netflix, Comcast, Gym Membership) that I didn't have a chance to do in our rushed departure. I started to pick up the phone and return a phone call that I had received on Friday night then I realized that it was in the middle of the night at home and that my friend would be less upset with me for not returning her message than she would be if I called her right then.
One more plane ride and we will be in our temporary hometown location of Krakow, Poland. The flight from Warsaw to Krakow ranked right up there with the flight from Philly to Newark, small and bumpy. Parker didn’t care because he slept through the whole thing!
Finally, we made it to Krakow, Poland!!!! I would love to tell you we got all of our luggage and were out of there, but that was not the case. Out of eight checked bags we got all except for one; not too bad considering. Happily, they delivered Spencer's bag to us that night.
Once we got to our flat, we unloaded our bags and figured we needed to get some food for the apartment before it got dark. We figured we would grab some mall food and some convenient store supplies to get us through the next 24 hours, but to our surprise, the huge mall behind the apartment building had a full size grocery store. So we grabbed some ‘milk’, cereal (honey nut Cheerios), sandwich meat, bread, mustard, peanut butter, pasta and sauce, as well as a few bottles of water. We were all so tired that none of us wanted to go out to eat so we cooked up some pasta and red sauce and called it close enough.
Oh well, WE’RE IN POLAND!!! J
Cheers!
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