Time to go. I woke up on my own this morning without the alarm. It’s a very early morning for us. Getting up is hard. I was awake about ninety minutes before Anton was set to arrive and pick us up so that we could head to the airport.
Early morning Anton picked us up, along with his driver, just like he picked us up from the airport when we first came to Kiev, and we packed in and headed off to the airport. Anton and I in his small car, Dominica and the girls with the driver. Anton had some transmission problems on the drive, we were lucky to make it to the airport. It was a near thing.
Getting into the airport was not too bad. Anton came with us and helped us to deal with some luggage issues and got everything smoothed out for us and we were able to get into security pretty quickly.
Once through security, it was time for some breakfast at the airport. Then to the gate to wait. While we waited at the airport, I showed Dominica all of the bombers and military transports at the airport. She had not noticed how prepared Kiev is for major, rapid, military action.
Onto our flight for a very easy and fast flight to the US.
The food on our flight was really good. Fish and bulgar. It was delicious. Our flight was comfortable and easy. We are all so used to our long haul flights at this point, even the kids don’t mind them at all. They are so good at this.
We got to New York super early, way before we were expected to get there. But we didn’t land. We noticed, pretty quickly, that we were circling Westchester County. This isn’t good.
After several hours of flying in circles around the lower Hudson Valley, they announced that due to weather issues, we could not land in New York. But we had been flying for so long that we were out of fuel. So we had to make an “emergency” trip to Logan in Boston for fuel.
So hours after we were supposed to land in New York, we were landing in Boston. In Boston, we got stuck on the tarmac for about three hours. That was not fun and almost all of the information being given was in Ukrainian so we were never quite sure what was happening. We thought, for a long time, that we were to disembark in Boston.
Eventually, we got back in the air and flew to New York. Our nine hour flight ended up being something like sixteen hours! It was almost eight hours 🙁
Once at JFK in NYC, we got our luggage, rented our car from our Enterprise location that we use every time that we arrive in the country, and we drove ourselves all night long, in the rain, to get up to dad’s house. We were so exhausted when we finally got to dad’s.
As we drove through Dansville tonight, we actually saw a badger run across the road! That’s a first.
My new Asus C201 Chromebook was waiting for me at dad’s. I got it set right up and did some posting from it.
Got to bed at something like four in the morning!