I'm Here!!!

Hello Italia!

So I will start my story at the LAX airport. Inside a Lufthansa plane. I have a window seat, and I am very excited. It's an older lady next to me, she's German (well we ARE going to Frankfurt) and doesn't seem to bad. Well across the aisle from me is a middle aged man, and in his hand is a bag of ice. The flight attendant asks "ARE YOU SURE YOU ARE OK? WE DON"T WANT TO TAKE YOU IF YOU'RE NOT FEELING WELL!" and I was like ohhhh great. A sick guy on a plane. He insisted he would be fine..... Well we pull out of the loading thingy, watched the whole safety video (in German AND English alllll the way through TWICE) and then the plane starts going BACK in to the gate!!! The message from the cock-pit: "Sorry everyone. We needed to unload a passenger... and take his bags out of the plane for security reasons..... so it will just be a few minutes. hahahaha so Mr. Sick guy WASN'T ok. Soooo, after a litttle bit mire time, we took off, and it was smooth sailing.

I was flying economy, and I wasn't expecting anything special, but Lufthansa is great! Each seat back has its own touch screen, with a choice of many movies, tv shows, and radio stations. Food wasn't to bad, and I got dinner and breakfast. I slept for a good chunk of the time, and it wasn't bad at all. Flying to Florida in the spring seemed longer... hahaha

Well, got to Frankfurt, got the graaaaaaannnnnd tour, I had to walk the entire airport to get to my connecting flight. i had to do a passport check, and security AGAIN. Got to the next gate in

just enough time, and finally got on the plane. They fed me again (lol) and then at the end of the hour.... Landing gear pops out, we start pulling in, and thennnnnn...... TURBULENCE! annnnddd the plane pulls UP. So the local Italian woman next to me says that this happens all the time because Florence is a valley, and the wind makes it crazy to land. Oh well..... So we were off the Bologna.... a "1 hour" bus ride, aka 2. I ended up meeting some other American students studying abroad, and thank God I did it was muchhhh better. It was CRAZY.... we got off the plane, and waited for our luggage for 40 mins, then thy didn't tell us where the BUS would be to pick us up, so we had to venture around, me in a 45 pound backpack, dragging a 50 lb rolley one, and a 20 lb carry on. funnnnnn stuff. Oh, and it was 90 degrees. and humid. But, I hopped on that bus, got to Florence (around 10 pm) when I was supposed to be there @ 6:30. Ohhhh well, at least i got HERE! :]]]

Lufthansa touch screens! :]

Ciao, California!

Lufthansa!