Never a Dull Moment...: The beginning of the Adventure

We left Phoenix about 8:30 pm. We knew that our flight was delayed for a couple of hours, but Landon was driving us to the airport, and he had to work the next morning, so we had him drive us early so he could get to bed. We waited at the airport for a few hours, and then had an uneventful flight to Seattle. We arrived around 3:30 am, got the shuttle to our hotel, and finally got a few hours of sleep. We got up fairly early to eat breakfast at the hotel, which turned out to be terrible, so we went over to IHOP and had a less bad breakfast before heading back to the hotel for a nap, then packed up and caught the shuttle to the airport.

We were the first of the Abersolds to arrive at the airport. We checked in to Iceland Air, showed our passports, checked in our luggage, and went through security. Security was way easier to go through for our international flight than it was for our flight from Phoenix to Seattle. We bought some diet Cokes and found a comfy place to wait and charge up our phones. Soon after, the rest of the family showed up. Our flight was on time, and there were no problems getting on. The plane was tiny and not very comfortable, but at least we were on a seven hour flight. We watched some movies, and listened to music and didn't sleep at all. We completely missed darkness that night! It was summer solstice, and we were so far north that we just barely missed darkness. It wasn't even twilight! It was crazy! We had an hour layover in Reykjavik. We had to disembark the plane onto a ramp right onto the runway, then we were shuttled into the airport, went through immigration, waited in a long line to start boarding again, then boarded another shuttle, up a ramp, and onto the plane. This flight was only three and a half hours, but I was determined to sleep! I slept for at least two hours and felt great by the time we landed. When we landed, it was about 1 pm in Munich, and about 4 am in Phoenix. We were excited to start our adventure!