Airports and Talent

I can’t think of many things that I have such mixed feelings about.  I love going to the airport.  It means that I’m about to embark on a fabulous adventure.  It’s such an exciting place to be.  You send off your luggage, you get to walk through all sorts of security, and planes are coming and going from everywhere.  It’s just great!  I feel like I could just happily be at the airport forever! 

Until I get to be at the airport forever.  I feel like most people’s airport horror stories involve running across gigantic airports and almost missing their flights.  Most of mine actually involve very long stays in the airport.  We’ve been sitting at JFK for six hours now.  We rode a shuttle, which was really fun, especially because we got to go around the whole airport.  We found a nice place to lie down and sleep, until this real nice lady came and woke us up and told us we couldn’t sleep there.  

We’re anxiously waiting for the Egpytair counter to open.  Speaking of Egyptair...it could be an interesting flight.  

I've come to the conclusion that we are just talented at buying plane tickets.  Take a look at our itinerary and you'll agree.  Obviously, the best way to get to Uganda is to make it a three day trip and take flights that leave in the middle of the night.  

May 8/9

SLC to JFK

11:30 p.m. arriving at around 6:30 a.m.

May 9/10

JFK to Cairo

6:30 p.m. arriving at 11:15 a.m.

May 10/11

Cairo to Uganda

9:45 p.m. to 3:25 a.m.

Okay, so you might not agree that this is the best way to travel.  But if there is one thing we are skilled at, it is buying the absolute cheapest tickets.  The price of our three day bout in the airports, less than $1500.  Oh, but it does leave us stranded in New York on the way home...but it's fine.  Clearly we feel right at home here.