Travel and Arrival

Feb 27 started early. Before ya'll were even thinking of getting out of bed I was awake and on my way to the airport. And in good Minnesota fashion, it had to snow the evening before leaving, which stranded fellow travelers Bill and Adelle at our lovely airport for the night. They were coming from CA and missed their connecting flight in MN enroute to NY. With the wind and the travel time required they stayed at the airport and I stayed home (albeit only for a few more hours) until I had to head that way for my own flight.

Now as a result of the wind and snow my first flight from MSP to Atlanta was delayed in taking off for de-icing. Tick tock...arrive in Atlanta running for the connecting flight - changing terminals to of course the one farthest from where I landed...get to the gate and am hurried onto the plane. I said "thanks for waiting" to the gate agent and was told we were waiting for a crew member before taking off and otherwise I would have missed the flight. The weather had delayed the original flight crew and the one on the plane was called in at the last minute. By God's design of course!

The group all met up together at JFK in NY and our journey together began. We flew on Czech Air through Prague to Odessa, Ukraine. After the long flight and a layover for a few hours in the Prague airport we arrived safely, tired and all but one bag in tow. Gratefully, the one bag arrive later in the week and was even delivered to the hotel in Kherson.

We spent the remainder of the arrival day in Odessa at the Black Sea Hotel, had dinner and blissfully slept.

Now I know you want more than the travel blah, blah, blah and there will be more to come later when I get a chance to get back online. The photo is out of our room window in Odessa. The traditional onion dome of the churches. This one now under some renonvation. I have the same view from 3 years ago too!