Stu and I met at the Boise airport with all of our bags. We checked our giant suitcases and said our goodbyes to our parents, not knowing how long it will be before we see them again.
Bags checked!
As you can see in the picture, I was exhausted from my intelligent decision to pull an all-nighter, packing and rearranging my bags, the night before our trip!
To get from Boise to Prague we had to change planes three times.
Our first layover was in Denver where once we arrived we had to collect our bags at the baggage claim and re-check them. Let me tell you, it is hard carrying three pieces of heavy luggage any distance! Once we got through the United Airlines check-in line and to the desk, I set my 63 lb bag on the scale. The agent told me that it was going to cost $200 to check a bag over the weight limit on an international flight. Our mouths dropped in disbelief. Luckily, I had an extra tote in my bag, so we put the heaviest items in the tote, and dropped the suitcase weight down to 50 lbs. We still had to pay $100 for both bags plus the $50 we had to pay on Southwest. (FYI: Moving abroad is not cheap!)
We had our next two layovers in Toronto and in Frankfurt. Toronto was hassle-free and very easy to get to our connecting gate. Frankfurt was a much more stressful since the airport was very crowded and difficult to navigate. Trying to get to our connecting flight to Prague felt like we were going through a giant maze of hallways and crowds of people speaking foreign languages. We had to navigate through many different halls to get to passport control, then proceeded to a neverending security line, and then finally to our gate. We were exhausted by this point and all we could talk about was how bad we wanted showers. However, this was not the end of our journey. To board our plane, we had to take a bus to our plane that was parked next the runway.
After 20 hours of flying and navigating our ways through airports and planes, we finally made it to our destination: PRAGUE!
Once we arrived at the Prague airport, it was smooth sailing from there. We easily found all of our bags waiting for us in the small, crowdless baggage claim area, exchanged our US dollars we had on hand, and without getting asked any questions about our stay. It was so relieving to see our shuttle driver waiting for us when we came out with two yellow signs with our names written on them. We were so amazed at how easy it was and thankful that we had the shuttle because trying to lug all of our bags on the metro would have sucked.
We are in our new apartment at the Hotel Pivovar and excited to explore Prague! I so have much more to share about our experiences since arriving but I will have to wait until later as we are going to explore now!
Cau!
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