Back in the City by the Bay

My apologies for missing the blog post on Sunday. Between travel and week 1 of the NFL season, there was just too much excitement. Expressing my thoughts via my mediocre writing abilities fell by the wayside. I arrived in San Francisco on Saturday afternoon after approximately 24 hours of travel (including check-in in Ghana, layover and delay in Frankfurt and clearing immigration/customs upon arrival in the good ol' US of A).

Admittedly, my travel experience started off pretty darn well when I was informed that another person had my same seat on the flight from Accra to Frankfurt. I flagged down the flight attendant, who walked off with both boarding passes, returned and told me that my new seat was 1G. You mean you just gave me a lay flat seat for an overnight flight? For really no reason? I might love you. Suffice to say, my flight to Frankfurt was quite enjoyable... with the exception of the minor heart attack I had when they came on the intercom to ask if there were any doctors on board as they had a medical emergency. My first thought was "I sure hope that person is ok", followed closely with "please don't land anywhere but Frankfurt".

Waiting at the gate in Frankfurt, they inform us that we will be at least a half hour delayed because of catering. A few of us joked that we really didn't need the sandwich/spaghetti and we'd rather just get the show on the road. Once we finally did board, an hour late, the pilot apologized all over himself and told us that they had a mechanical issue with the first plane. They switched out the aircraft but the previous plane had already been fully catered for the flight. So they had to drive, pick up all the food, and move it to the new plane. Normally I wouldn't have any sympathy for this; however, it was an A380 (the full double decker plane) which carries approximately 500 passengers, over 11 hours... it was a lot of food and beverage to relocate.

I arrived safely in San Francisco and met my mom in the International terminal (she flew in from Tampa and scooted over to wait for me to clear immigration). We had a nice few days of shopping and football watching and eating at all our favorite places. She left on Tuesday morning and I had one night on my own before Dan arrived on Wednesday afternoon. At the time of drafting this post, I suspect he's somewhere over Northern Canada as the flight from Frankfurt takes a polar route. We will have to see how he does with the jet lag and whether or not he chooses to nap. I can safely say regardless of the jet lag severity, I'd be willing to bet Mexican food is consumed at some point today :)

We have a few more days in the city and then we are going up to Guerneville for a wedding on Saturday. Sunday we will be flying to Munich for Oktoberfest, an early birthday hurrah for Dan. We will do our best to keep up with posts but we may be on hiatus until we return to Ghana on the 24th.