1 septembre 2009

This morning was insane! Our train to Munich left at 7:05 from Milan. We set the alarm, but must have slept right through it. At 6:48, Leah woke me up: OH MY GOSH, JP, IT’S 6:48!!! We thought about it for about 30 seconds, basically still asleep, and decided we were going to try to make it. We figured ok, 17 minutes: 4 minutes to pack, 4 minutes to checkout of the hotel, 5 minutes to run to the station, and 4 minutes to figure out what platform we needed to get to and to board the train. We totally made it!! Talk about a rush of adrenaline. This was the beginning of a day where everything could have either gone disastrously wrong or amazingly perfect. Everything just happened to work out for us today J Once we got to Munich, we went straight to the DB office to work on booking Leah’s long trek to Spain for tomorrow. She was first told she was going to have to go from Munich to Paris and then down into Spain. Luckily, the head of the DB is American (from Illinois) and decided he was going to help make Leah’s trip as easy as it could be. He was such a blessing and helped SO much. Leah is now going to go through Switzerland to get to Spain, the much more direct route. We picked up our semester luggage from Ian, who so kindly let us store it in Munich the whole time we were traveling. It’s hard to believe that Leah and I will be headed to our respected cities tomorrow! It hasn’t really hit me yet, but it’s so nice to be back in Munich for a night – somewhere that is so comfortable and familiar to me.