Back In The USA

I probably should have posted this a few hours ago when I actually got home, but I got caught up catching up with other things.

Anyway, I am back safely, and with all of my luggage. I'm really tired, but I'm forcing myself to stay awake until a normal bed time to try to fight off the jet lag. We'll see how it works.

Since I'm tired, I'm gonna keep this short. A few things about the trip home today:

- Confusion about the first flight of the day (our itinerary was Barcelona -> Madrid -> Newark -> Nashville). Didn't know if we had to check in with Continental or somewhere else. Found out we had to check in with Air Europa. Of course, Air Europa had tons of people waiting to check in and just five lines open. Think you can open up some more? Took a while to get checked in, but we made it through security very quickly and caught the flight on time.
- Arrived in Madrid. We were supposed to have a 1 hour and 10 minute layover. As it turns out, our plane was already boarding when we got off of our arriving plane. We rush over to the departing plane wanting to get a drink from a soda machine before we get on the plane. Before we could get any money in the machine, we heard our names on the PA system. It was the last call for us to board. What happened to the 1 hour and 15 minutes? I don't think we arrived late, but I could be wrong. But we got on the plane.
- On the Madrid to Newark flight we kept having to contend with screaming kids that wouldn't shut up. People everywhere were shushing them, and their mother was having no luck getting them to stop. Eventually they fell asleep, so they were quiet for the majority of the flight. But before that, I thought there would be some rioting or something.
- Arrive early in Newark. Customs was a breeze. Rechecked our bags, went back through security, and waited just over three hours for our final flight... which ended up being delayed by around 27 minutes or something like that. We board the plane after the delay, then taxi for another 20 to 25 minutes before finally taking off. End up landing in Nashville almost one hour later than we were supposed to. But we made it.

Not much else to comment on about the trip back.

Like I said yesterday, kind of sad to leave, but glad to be back. Now I have lots of pictures to sort through, so stay tuned!

(This post was actually posted at the time below, so we're back to regular time now!)