A Marathon Travel Day

Our long day began on an ominous note in Milwaukee.   Our weather was fine there, but apparently the weather in Chicago was not.   As a result the airport was in a "shutdown" for a time and it didn't take long for everything to get backed up as far as landings and take-offs.   We ended up sitting on the tarmac there in Milwaukee for nearly two hours.   We truly expected that we would not make that connection since we only had a two hour window.   Unbelievably, we did make that flight as it was also delayed due to the back-ups.   The plane was great and not crowded so we had an extra seat in our row and were able to take turns stretching out for naps.   Not what you would call quality sleep but tolerable.   The only problem was that because that flight was delayed and because it was a long process to get off the big plane, through customs and on to our gate in Vienna-we arrived there exhausted, stressed and then disappointed to find we had missed the flight by 5 minutes.   The next 6 hours were spent in a sleep-deprived stupor waiting for the only other flight out that day to Budapest.   We finally got to our departure time.   They took our boarding passes and we walked down a jet-way expecting to enter the plane sitting at the end of it.   Only we didn't.   they put us on a shuttle bus, trucked us out onto the tarmac and these cute little prop jobs are what met us!     I didn't even know they still flew these things!  You can see Bob just about to board in the picture below-at the back of the plane!  Actually was a nice little flight and so low to the ground that we saw all the cities and villages as we made our way to Budapest.   We were happy to see the Viking representative waiting for us at the baggage claim area.   We made it to the ship around 7 and enjoyed the evening that we described yesterday.

We were so looking forward to a long, peaceful night of sleeping in our comfy bed.   Not so much.   We both feel like our bodies were not quite adjusted to the time change.   Slept well, but only in stretches.  

We looked forward to our Budapest city tour....to be continued