It was a long day (June 20). I got up about 3am, the girls got up at 5:30 am, we had breakfast, packed the car, and headed to Milan's Malpensa airport for our return to the US. Turned in the rental car, found our gates, went thru security, and chilled for a couple of hours before our 9+ hour flight to Newark, NJ. Everything was on time, in fact we got in 15 minutes early. Good thing we had a 6 hour layover in Newark - took us almost 3 hours to get thru passport control, customs, recheck our bags, and the longest line to get to security I've EVER seen! We had to stand in a line for more than a half hour before we could get in the line to go thru security!!!
Anyway, after 6 hours we departed Newark on time headed for Omaha. However, Omaha was having monster storms and almost a tornado in downtown, where they were playing the College World Series, and had to close the airport, so we got diverted to Des Moines. Got into Des Moines at 8:45pm, sat on the plane till 9:15 when they decided to let us sit in the terminal until they decided if they were going to try to make it into Omaha. Finally at 1:15am they decided the weather in both Des Moines and Omaha was good enough to try it, so we jumped on the plane for a 28 minute hop to Omaha. Massive Kudos to the Continental flight crew and the Continental ground crew in Des Moines - they went way out of the way to keep us informed and tried to make us comfortable. Got our bags and were home by 2:45am THIS morning. Thanks to Joe Reiter for picking us up at that late/early hour. 28 hours later and plenty tired!!
Will post some photos shortly... and over the next week I'll fill in the blanks on the days I haven't previously posted, go thru the over 3000 photos I took, and go thru the 1500 e-mails I received while gone. We were really without internet access for a lot of the trip. Kinda surprising..
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