America to Romania

After leaving our house at 9:00am, we made it to LAX at 11:30am and waited in a long line.  Our 2 big check in bags needed to be 50 lbs each, but ended up being 55 and 53!  Alina and I had to take some out of one bag (to put in the other) and we weasled our way into taking all of our belongings with us!  Then were the TSA lines, which weren't that bad.  Neither of us were molested-- I mean, pat-searched.  We made it to our gate with plenty of time to spare and boarded at 1:30pm.  We sat next to a nice girl from Armenia named Meg.  She was going to Iran to stay with her family.

For the next 9.5 hours, we had drinks, snacks, 2 meals (dinner + breakfast), tried to sleep, watched movies (a large selection of movies, TV shows, etc.), and lots of cramped uncomfortableness.  How is it that people pay to be this uncomfortable?!  I guess it's a means to an end.  I tried to go to sleep with 5mg of Melatonin, but woke up after 2 hours.  We arrived in Amsterdam, Netherlands with a 3 hour lay over, then onto Bucharest, Romania in a 3 hour plane flight.

The man we were sitting next to was a Romanian man from Orange County, who was visiting his daughter.  We had ipads and Romanian wives in common.  After we arrive in Bucharest, we met Alina's mother, Lydia, and her brother, Bebe at the airport.  We drove 2 hours North to Moreni, Alina's hometown.  We ate, talked (well, I listened to non-stop Romanian-- more on that later...), and then went to bed very tired.  We finally made it!