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Traveling Adventures

Our flight from KCI left late and they warned us that if we did not make the connection in Newark, the next flight to Frankfurt would be 24hr later. We were anxious to get to India, so we agreed to try it (by the way, thanks to Ricky and Hannah for offering to take care of us if we had gotten stuck!). We did everything we could to make our connection: we studied the map of the Newark terminals, our flight attendant helped us be the first ones off the plane, and we RAN to our gate, which was in a different terminal. As we were running through the airport we heard the announcements that it was the final boarding call for our flight, and we just arrived at the gate in time. What a blessing! We thought for sure that we would not see our checked bag for awhile, but we were happy to be on our way to India.

Upon arriving in Chennai, India late Saturday night (11:20pm), we waited for our checked bag at the baggage claim, not really thinking it had made the move from plane to plane in 6 min like we had. We did not see our bag, so we waited in line at a desk that said something about service. While Andy kept waiting in line for us, I went one last time to confirm that our bag was not there…..and there it was! It was sitting on the ground near where the bags came out to the belt. It was our big hiking backpack, so I think it was taken off so that the flaps and ties would not get stuck in the belt. We felt so blessed to find it – this was more than we had hoped for!

We finally left the airport and met our driver, who drove us to Footprint Bed & Breakfast. I am glad our first experience of Indian driving was at night when it was not too crowded because it was already a lot to take in at 12:30am. Our room was very nice and we crashed as soon as we got here.