9.24.2010

Europe Day 1- 9.4

We awoke bright and early and lugged our suitcases to the metro stop a few blocks away. It was around 7am and I noticed downtown seemed more bustling than usual. Then I realized there was an unusual amount of gold/black and some sparse blue/orange and realize that people are tailgating for the IL-Mizzou game!!!! I actually got really sad that we were missing it, but kept saying-- we are on our way to EUROPE...it will be okay!

Here's some pics waiting at the airport and playing our newest travel past-time thanks to our relative's honeymoon gift from last year. It's a scratch-off book to play Yahtzee and we are hooked on this when travelling!



We arrived in Toronto and had about an 8 hour layover. We met up with Dustin's relatives and it was great to catch up with them, especially since his cousin just had a baby this summer. He was very good, chunky, and cute...not much more you could ask for! (From left, Me, Dustin, his cousin Megan with baby Matthew, Megan's husband Shane, Aunt Wendy, cousin Tommy)


As a further bonus of our Canadian stop, I scored a Columbia coat for $25 which came in handy for the chilly, rainy days we encountered! you'll see that in many photos to come. Unfortunately I did NOT get this hat, but was in love with it and made Dustin take my picture in it....and this will remind me to drop hints closer to xmas that this would make a great gift!


Our flight left at 9pm for Europe and we had taken some Tylenol PM to help knock us out. However, we got on the plane and we had our own personal tvs with movies to pick from, so was hard to try to force ourselves to sleep over watching numerous movies! It was also free beer and wine...and we were in coach! But we each did get a few hours of sleep off and on.