Munich Airport

On the Road to Russia!

Chicago U.S.A - Munich Germany - Tbilisi Georgia - Kiev Ukraine - Moscow Russia

8 hour and 45 minute Layover in Munich!

We landed in Munich at 12:30 p.m. August 20th. If you know my family at all, you can probably guess that we spent the first hour debating what we were going to do during the layover. =) yep. It was good though because we got to see some cool stuff wandering around the airport in the beginning!

Germans and their beer! Haha, This store in the airport was filled to the brink in alcohol related things =)

I want one!

WTF even are these!? I decided they are choker watches. Hahaha. Fashionable, but not practical!

Difference between the U.S. and other countries, smoking is everywhere. These "smoking lounges" were everywhere. Some of them were just random glass boxes people hung out it. So weird and it still smelled awful by them! >.<

After we wondered around, we all ended up passing out on some random chairs in the airport for about 20 or 30 minutes (Like homeless bums). Yep, we are cool! Finally, we woke up and decided what we were going to do...

Food and then see the cool stuff outside!

Food!

German sports bar. Can't turn that one up!

This is meatloaf?! My mom and Rob got this. The yellow stuff was potato salad, which I thought was actually super good!

I got this and potato salad. Can't live without my ham sandwiches =)

Just outside the Airport

The outside area was domed in by glass! On orange sign was... (see next picture)

SURFING! omgoodness. 

What an awesome pool. I want one in my future house (If I don't live somewhere I can easily surf!! ^-^)

Transforming Screen! (robots multiple screens in disguise)

Normal screen..

BAM! It turned into a 3 sided screen!!

And it's spinning!

Totally different screen!

Hahaha. Sorry, sometimes I'm amused by simple things. I stood in front of this screen for about 40 minutes trying to get video of it. [p.s. don't worry, I finally got it!]

German Restaurants - under the glass dome

The silver sign with the blue M on it says "Munich Airport" (At lease that's what I was told!)

Brilliant. We need these

This McD's was like a nice restaurant! Why aren't ours like this!?

A neat airplane restaurant under the dome

 Back in the Airport

makeshift seating while we are figuring out where to go.

John wants the camera

BMW concept car on a poster in the airport. Yes please!

I love the moving sidewalks. This weirdo kept getting into my pictures =)

Lufthansa Airbus A320-200 (I think!)

Nothing really special.. 3-3 seating

My time on the flight consisted of...

• Attempting to take pictures of a lit up Munich. I failed! (I mean, Nailed it!)
• The Princess Bride on my iPod!

• In flight dinner! (wasn't expecting that!)

Brooklyn sleeping on the airplane. She was so out, she didn't even wake up for the dinner!

In flight food! Munich to Tbilisi

Dinner

• Barbecue chicken, potatoes, and peppers
• Salad (which had a ton of beets in it) and buttermilk dressing
• Cranberry? cake... not sure on that one.
• Dinner roll with butter
• Super tasteless cheese (the outside was white, and the inside was yellow)

Chicago O'hare!

On the Road to Russia!

Chicago U.S.A - Munich Germany - Tbilisi Georgia - Kiev Ukraine - Moscow Russia

Downtown Chicago from the highway!

My family in O'hare. I wanted to show off how much luggage we all had! I was pretty sure we were moving! [p.s. I have a weird brother]

Our trip really started in Chicago when we got to the O'hare Airport. [That's in the U.S. so I won't talk much about it =) go there if you want to experience it!] Our flight departed at 8:50 (Central Time) And we flew Lufthansa to Munich Germany [about a total of 9 hours in the air!!]

Lufthansa Airbus A340-600

The seats went 2 - 4 - 2! We had the middle 4 and one edge isle

Everyone had their own screens. It was sweet!

A close up of the screen. Half German, half English! It was a touch screen that was like a tablet, because each person could do their own thing on it!

My sister Brooklyn!
Short Advantage # 47
Your head be able to fit under the built in chair pillow on airplanes that push your head forward

My time on the flight consisted of...

• Watching How I Met Your Mother "Jenkins" on our individual screens!
• Re-reading Eragon (So I can finally read the 4th book)
• In flight dinner!
• Watching Hunger Games on our individual screens!
• Sleeping for about an hour and a half
• In flight breakfast

In flight food! Chicago to Munich

Dinner

• Vegetarian Pasta (the sauce was strange but sort of like Alfredo with tomato sauce added)
• Salad with Balsamic vinaigrette
• Baguette with butter
• Monterey Jack Cheese
• Some weird puffy pudding thing! I'm not sure what it actually was, or what flavor it was. All I know is that I really didn't like it!. Let me know if you know!

Breakfast

I guess I forgot to take a picture of this one! >.<

• Blueberry Muffin
• Mixed Fruit
• Shortbread cookies

Introduction!

Hi everyone!!!

I decided to attempt to keep a blog of my trip to Russia for anyone that is interested! I have to be honest with you though, I'm terrible at this stuff and might only make it one or two posts in before I give up. I'm hoping not to do that but I am a pro at starting things and never finishing them... So here goes nothing!

**Note!** I've taken so many pictures, I can't post them all here and I doubt anyone will want to look at them all anyway! =) (I'm such a mediocre photographer. haha) So I'm going to post my favorite ones or important ones, and I hope to make a scrapbook with the billions of other pictures later (online of course). I'll try to post that up here too when I finish it, but that will probably be awhile [if you are interested]!

Thanks for reading