It's been a couple of years since our Asia trip, so we decided it was time to visit a new continent -- Europe!
The trip began with a drive to Washington, D.C. to take Iceland Air to Reykjavik. In true Newby fashion, we left about an hour later than we intended to. That didn't seem to matter until we hit Quantico, where of course, we ran into traffic. L.D. and I realized that we'd lost our D.C./northern Virginia traffic smarts as we searched for the radio station that provides "news and traffic on the 8's". Fortunately, a friend from Red Hat came to the rescue by texting us the WTOP station location so that we could find out what was happening.
Here's a taste of what it was like on the drive up!
At the end of the day, neither Washington traffic nor both Amanda and L.D. misreading the flight departure time (it was 8:35 p.m. instead of 10:35 p.m. as we thought -- the check-in reminder that the last time for dropping off bags was 7:20 p.m. saved us!), we made it to Dulles to catch our flight. The nice thing about the flight is that we were upgraded to first class which was lovely. Even Wesley was impressed. However, when you have a relatively short flight (@5 hours) and you are flying east, you don't get much sleep, regardless of how comfortable your seat is. We all could have used a few more hours by the time the plane touched down at Keflavik Airport about 30 minutes ahead of schedule. Take a look at Wesley's face if you don't believe me!
