Project Barcelona

I've been off the web for a while now and FINALLY I can tell you what exactly I've been up  to!

In case you were wondering no I was not in Barcelona. But, most of my family thought I was going to be! Instead my step mom and I organized a plane ticket and I headed home for a week and a half! My dad and grandparents were both shocked. =-)

My sister and I

It took almost 24 hours to get there and back (normally it's only 10 if that total). I had a 9 hour layover in Munich on the way there and then again on the way back in Frankfurt. I found a corner with a nice chair and slept for most of it, but my legs kept going to sleep so I had to keep switching positions.

My dad wasn't nearly as shocked as my grandparents, but he kept patting me on the shoulder like I was going to disappear or something. I surprised my grandparents by walking into the exam room acting like the vet when they went to give their dog a rabies shot. It took about 10 seconds for my grandmother to realize what was going on.

My sister knew I was coming so she came down and met all of us at my grandparents house. She even made me a cake, because incidentally it was my birthday. She also gave me a set of scrub tops which she embroidered "Dr. DiaryMD" on the front (obviously my surname was there instead of DiaryMD). I can't wait to graduate so I can wear them!

My Dad lives in the DC area so when we finished visiting my grandparents my mother came down from where she lives and her and my stepdad went downtown and explored all the smithsonian museums we could possibly cram into one day. After they left my grandparents decided to come and visit and so I spent time with them and my dad, and step mom.

Just a boat going down the road!

My dad just sold his boat so we also went down to the marina so he could have one last look-over at it. (I thought he was going to cry). He's moving (again) and where he's going is too far away from any bigger bodies of water so he had to get rid of it. On the way out of the parking lot we came across how exactly they move bigger boats in and out of the water. It's pretty neat!

Really, it wasn't a very eventful visit, and it was quite short compared to my normal visits. When the week came to an end on Saturday my dad loaded my oversized suitcase into the car and we all went to the airport.

I tried to get an earlier flight from Frankfurt back to my school with no luck, but the flight attendant told us that the flight was overbooked by 20 people and that they needed people to opt out and take a later flight. I volunteered and was told I was first on the list, all I had to do was go to the gate wait for the plane to start to board, then they'd call me and I'd go back to the main entrance to sort out my ticket for the next day, and I'd get to spend another day at home!

What ended up happening despite the lady's insistence that I would not be getting on the plane was quite the opposite, I did have to get on the plane. And having not said a proper goodbye because I and everyone else thought I was coming back I was obviously a little distressed.
Thank you Lufthansa!