{"id":52,"date":"2006-12-21T17:53:39","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T00:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pierfamily.com\/wordpress\/?p=52"},"modified":"2019-08-21T15:03:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T22:03:37","slug":"our-adventures-of-the-first-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pierfamily.com\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/21\/our-adventures-of-the-first-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Adventures of the First Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

*Note: Cindy forwarded the email, so here is Mom and Dad’s account of the first travel day. –Jim*<\/em><\/p>\n

After you left us last night, we got our boarding passes and went\u00c2\u00a0 to our gate and then started the adventure! The board stated the\u00c2\u00a0 flight would leave at 9:11 and then once I looked over and it said\u00c2\u00a0 1:00. We knew we would have a three hour layover in Las Vegas, but\u00c2\u00a0 that was four hours! They didn’t have any pilots who could fly the\u00c2\u00a0 plane. The only ones were coming in from Cincinnati and would\u00c2\u00a0 arrive at midnight.<\/p>\n

They said international passengers would have to go down to\u00c2\u00a0 ticketing to make arrangements and they were putting everyone going\u00c2\u00a0 to the East Coast up in hotels because they would miss their connections. So the other three headed down to ticketing and I\u00c2\u00a0 stayed with the luggage.<\/p>\n

Then an agent came to the gate and made an announcement and as he\u00c2\u00a0 left the podium I asked him about our connections. He got our names\u00c2\u00a0 and went to work on it. In a few minutes he came back with tickets\u00c2\u00a0 for us on an American West flight leaving in about a half hour.\u00c2\u00a0 Needless to say the others weren’t back yet and I couldn’t carry\u00c2\u00a0 all of our carry on stuff all by myself. Just then an empty cart\u00c2\u00a0 came by and the agent flagged him
\ndown and loaded all our luggage\u00c2\u00a0 onto his cart and we took off from our D gate to the A gate. Half\u00c2\u00a0 way there we met dad and the Kane’s and they jumped on also.<\/p>\n

Then we got over to the new gate and wouldn’t you know it, it was\u00c2\u00a0 late too! But it did manage to take off and got us to Las Vegas\u00c2\u00a0 with a half hour to spare. We made the connection to the Korean Air\u00c2\u00a0 Flight which was also a little late. It was a great flight with\u00c2\u00a0 lots of stewardesses who really worked hard and took great care of us.<\/p>\n

We are now in the middle of our ten hour lay over in Seoul. We\u00c2\u00a0 didn’t get ourselves organized enough to take a tour of Incheon. It\u00c2\u00a0 would have cost us $50 each, so we weren’t sure we really wanted to\u00c2\u00a0 go on it. In Las Vegas we met a mother and son who are on their way\u00c2\u00a0 to Jakarta to spend three weeks with her other son. We are spending\u00c2\u00a0 the time with them. We played Category Five for a while.<\/p>\n

Now here comes the real reason for this e-mail. Dad has figured out\u00c2\u00a0 that he somehow managed to leave our camera home. Please call Brian\u00c2\u00a0 and have him look for it. It could be anywhere, but most likely is\u00c2\u00a0 upstairs in the bedroom. We will send you our address tomorrow and\u00c2\u00a0 would like you to mail it to us. Oops, I hit a wrong key and this\u00c2\u00a0 computer started typing in Korean, but the lady who works here\u00c2\u00a0 fixed it for me! The camera is about the size of a pack of\u00c2\u00a0 cigarettes and is in a black leather cover. I sure hope you can\u00c2\u00a0 find it and Dad did not lose it out of his pocket on one of the\u00c2\u00a0 planes.<\/p>\n

We don’t know yet if our luggage made the changes. The gate agent\u00c2\u00a0 had me describe them to him and he went to look for them, so we\u00c2\u00a0 will find out when we get in Jakarta if we have luggage. We leave\u00c2\u00a0 here in about five more hours and the flight is a seven hour\u00c2\u00a0 flight. It is very cold here in Seoul, but luckily the airport is\u00c2\u00a0 warm. That is another reason we were reluctant to take the tour,\u00c2\u00a0 none of us have coats!<\/p>\n

Well, you can forward this on the everyone else. I don’t have all\u00c2\u00a0 of their e-mail addresses in my aol address book yet. The Mongolian missionaries we traveled from the MTC with made their connection to\u00c2\u00a0 Ulan Bator and are now on their way. Their flight from here is only\u00c2\u00a0 a four hour flight.<\/p>\n

We love you all!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Mom and Dad<\/p>\n