I’ll think of Daniel and Germany every time I hear any of them and imagine him dancing and singing along on car rides. The airport here seems huge. As if it’s its own town. We walked through hallways and up numerous escalators to get to my gate entry (even taking a shuttle Daniel and I took to get to his car.) Daniel carried my suitcase the whole way which was very sweet of him and really helped us to move along fast. When I stopped at customs he had to stand back while I was asked questions about my stay here. Its so strange leaving. I’m going to miss Daniel and seeing him all the time and the way my face hurt from smiling and laughing with him. Yesterday editing the report together was a lot of fun. I don’t remember laughing so often for such a long time. It makes me sad.
The flight back, again, wasn’t as long as I expected, but it was long enough for sure. I was bored after a while and couldn’t sleep. It felt weird being back, like I wasn’t back, but I was just visiting a new place again. When I got off the plane we were still on the runway...no I didn’t jump out...we didn’t have a spot to park otherwise so we had to take a shuttle and a bus and walk for a while to get to our gate and then try to find our luggage that had been pulled from the trolly to the ground. Of course mine was nowhere to be found and I had German fellow passengers asking me for help which I could only direct them to someone who knew German.
I found my luggage, but no one was there to get me which was just wonderful. My parents forgot me last time and I couldn’t believe they forgot me again. I thought okay, you have no phone and you’ve never taken this airline before so you don’t know where you are either. I went outside to check and found payphones, but only had euros with me. I was going to make some change when I felt like I’ll just walk around and see if I find someone I know. Sure enough my dad was in the wrong place or was told to wait in the wrong place. I walked up to him and said, “Hey I think I know you from somewhere” and when he turned around we hugged and started to the car.
We went straight to a pug party, but I was dressed in business clothes since Daniel thought if I looked nice they might bump me to business class...they didn’t but now I was far too over dressed for a pug party and all the smell and hair. We went anyway of course. Once I got there Squishy had no idea it was me until I said something then his eyes almost popped out of his head like any cartoon when they are surprised and he jumped for me freaking out that it was really me. It was very sweet and I was completely covered in dog hair and smelled by the end of the party.
It was nice seeing Squishy and being with him again, but I was exhausted from the flight because there was nothing to do and from Germany time it was the evening. We all went back to my house and Squishy brought a friend so we went walking and sat by the pool. I’ll talk to Daniel this week on Skype I’m sure and I hope he’s settling into his flat and new courses. We were talking about him coming here in October. I’m not sure if he’s going to or not, but it would be nice if he did. If I find work by then though I’m going to do what I can to have off while he’s here so we can actually do somethings. Maybe since he’s seen the city already we’d go upstate and go hiking or something. I know I have to get into better shape so I’m not stopping all the time though.
I’m going to make a DVD of the trip and send him a copy and keep a copy. I had a DVD for my grandparents for their anniversary of the time my dad and I surprised my Granny for her 86th this summer, with a video of her great grandchildren she’s never met and then photos from our trip to see them and from Germany since we’re from there and they have never been able to go. I set the background so it looks like a wall with shelves and each video and photo album is a picture frame. When you click on the photo albums though it plays music to go with the photos. I hope they like it and I hope it travels well there.
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