It's amazing though, how much stuff we don't know that we'll need... That's one thing I find to be lacking on the interwebs is a packing list. Here's some of the things we brought, and once we get settled I'll post to let you know what was useful and what essentially just took up space.
We each took a suitcase of clothes, limiting us to basically a two week supply of stuff. For me, I was able to double duty the clothes I took to work for church, work, etc. I still took WAY more than Taggart, but for him, it's hard, cause he's so flipping tall that his clothes are enormous. And dense. We then had one suitcase for toiletries and one for shoes and household items. The toiletries are a thing because we have no idea what will be available to us in Seoul. We've heard any point of the spectrum from 'you can't get anything over there' to 'you can find what you need no problem', so we aired on the safe side. This will have to have another follow up post once we determine if the eight million things of deodorant we took were worth it.
So we reached the airport in record time just to find that our first flight to San Francisco has been delayed. We have about a 15 minute window to make our connecting flight to Seoul, by have seats booked on a later flight that only tacks on an extra 3 hours to our travel time. So for now, here's hoping!!!
San Francisco was HOT and HUMID in the airport, as was our first plane, so we are dripping and pretty gross. It's a good thing that our new best friend was happy to share the next 12 hours with us!!! We had to go through security again and almost made our connecting flight by like 5 min, which ticked all three of us off because we were all geared up for an epic run-to-the-gate awesome connecting flight story. Oh well. We spent our three hour layover eating lunch and changing into less sticky clothes for the long flight. Since we missed our connection, we also transferred airlines, and thank goodness for that, because I can't imagine a 12 hour flight with United compared to the amazing flight we had with Asiana Airlines. The service was amazing, there was tons of leg room, they fed us 3 times and provided water, orange juice, and hot towels the whole flight, there were over 35 movie selections and games on our personal tvs, and the three of us new buddies got to sit together. It was very enjoyable, and if we don't get to fly back with them I'll be very sad indeed.
Here's some pictures to tide you all over to the next post!
A little blurry shot of the 4:30 a.m. drive, plus a shot of our luggage. I don't think we brought too much!...
Below you will see Nate and Taggart enjoying one of our fine dining selections, the interactive map telling us we were about to land, and two awesome shots of Korea from our window.
This is the cabin of our plane, which was really roomy, plus a picture of a toilet in the Incheon airport that had a seat that rotated and changed the plastic cover before you could use it. Weird, and cool!
Friendship is magic, and we're ready to go! This is our new buddy Nate. |
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