Spain Journal-Feb 24th 2012- Detroit

Greeting World,


I will be writing about my trip to Spain in the next 9 or 10 entries. I will talk about what I saw, the feelings I got for my experiences and so much more. So lets get started!


Day 1-Feb 24th (Detroit)
The start of our grand adventure. Our group met at the airport at noon. It was interesting to see some of the younger ones in our group being excited but yet nervous at the same time, because this was their first time on an airplane. Their parents were there to see them off. It was very touching and reminded me of the first time I went to Mexico as an exchange student. How excited I was to be going to this other country and experience new and different things.


While we waited to board the airplane, Benita give us a quick class of some of the things we would see while in Spain. That's when she bought out the "Finger Puppets"- Picasso, Dali, there was one more but I don't remember who.

Benita with "Finger-Puppets" of Famous Artist

We loaded the airplane like good boys and girls around 2:45pm. The flight was schedule to leave at 3:30pm. So, we were sitting in this big tin can like a bunch of hot sardines, waiting to leave the airport. The time was getting closer and closer to our connecting flight time.When around 4:30pm the pilot says that we are going to have the wings defrosted because Michigan was having a winter storm. While they we're defrosting the wings, the pilot noticed a dent on the wing and wanted to get it checked out before we left the airport. So, we went back to the terminal to have it checked out and they said that it would take at least two hours to figure out what was going on. So, we missed our connecting flight in Atlanta. YaY for safety! Sucks to be late though!


When we got off the airplane, the group went to the delta customer services desk. Benita and Gordon made this place their home for the next three hours, trying to get us all a flight to Spain. They were finally able to get all of us on a 10pm flight to Amsterdam, but the connecting flight to Madrid, was only able to get 12 of us on one flight and Benita and Cooper another flight 3 hours later. So this was our first long day of our journey!

Julia and I after a long flight to Amsterdam

Amsterdam Airport