Day 1 of trip to Sweden September 2016

Monday September 13th 2016 we began our journey to Sweden.  It would take 3 planes and about 17 hours of air travel to get there.

We were able to travel with Donna, Laif, Ann & Mark.

I had signed up for a global upgrade and was amazed that we had it from Detroit to Paris.  It was nice, I didn't really get that much sleep considering it was flat bed seats but our flight left at 9:30 AM out of Seattle and then we left Detroit at 12:30 PM so it was hard to get any sleep.  We pretty much lost a whole night of sleep.

When we arrived in Paris we thought we would have lots of time, 2 hours, but first the plane took forever to taxi to the gate, then we were held for another 10 minutes at the gate because someone was ill.  Finally we got to the passport control area and it was a complete stop!  It took us almost one hour to get through.  They finally opened a few more windows for people and then all they did was stamp our passports.  No questions, nothing!  So it was 5 minutes before our plane was supposed to leave.  Mark took the lead, running in his slippers, and was the first to the gate.  The agent was just walking over to shut the door.  We told them there was more people and we were yelling to Donna, RUN!!!  We couldn't believe we made it on the plane.  They shut the door after we got on and we sat down and caught our breath.  Just one of the many times we found ourselves running to catch a train or ferry :)

So we arrived at the airport at 6:30 AM on Monday and arrived in Stockholm at 12:30 PM on Tuesday.  We then got our bags and rented a car and headed out to Karin's home.