But we have a little funny story to share, that was not quite so funny at the time. So in order to use Ryanair we had to fly through Dublin, this wasn't really a connecting flight, but more of two flights. We had about a 5 hour layover in the airport. Everything with Ryanair is a la carte, so we get the bare bones. You can pay extra to be one of the first ones on the plane, since there is no assigned seats. Well we never do that, so we are in the regular line of people to board the plane first. We step up ready to board and the guy says that we can't. He says since we are not EU citizens we need this visa stamp on our boarding pass. We had printed our boarding passes off online, again it was the cheaper option. So we are like okay, where do we need to go. He says back through customs, through passport control, to the check-in desk to have them stamp this and then through security and back. We are like are you kidding, the plane leaves in 30 minutes. He says we need to do this or we cannot board the plane. Ryanair is not known for their customer service so we didn't think they would allow us reschedule our flight or be accomdating in any way.
Well we take off running through airport. We are those crazy people yelling "excuse me" and running. Thankfully we are in an english speaking country because having to explain this to people quickly in French would have been difficult. So we run through customs, explain this quickly to passport control so that they don't need to stamp our passport again. But while on the way, Keith is carrying one bag and I am rolling another. My foot gets caught in the wheel of our bag and I fall. Hard. I fall so hard I roll. Thankfully, I fell on my knees and not on my head. Everyone stops to look. I am slightly embarrassed, but also concerned that we have lost time. Keith after inspecting and seeing that I am okay, takes the wheeling bag and off we go again. We get the stamp on our boarding pass and then head to security, which now there is a long line for. They are nice and let us through ahead of people. But when they scan our boarding passes, their computers say we have already been through. So we have to go back to the check-in desk and get another peice of paper. I'm thinking if we have already been through security we are probably secure then. But we do this, you don't argue with airport security personnel. Then we zoom through security and then we are off in our last sprint. My knees are hurting pretty bad at this point, but you don't slow down when we are this close to your goal. Well we make it there, just in time. We are the last people on the plane, huffing and puffing. Since we didn't have assigned seats we couldn't sit next to each other, but to be honest we were so grateful we were on the plane!
That night when I looked at my knees they were all black and blue and it has take then about 2 weeks to look better. It doesn't really promote healing when you have to continue to run on them. But we had a lovely little trip, even though it was a rough beginning.
Hanging out by the Loch Ness.
Is that the monster?...Judge for yourselves.
Touching the water, that was as close as I would get, I mean you never know. Also it was really cold!
Hanging out in the airport during our 5 hour layover, before the running started. It was also our first Starbucks overseas!
Touching the water, that was as close as I would get, I mean you never know. Also it was really cold!
Hanging out in the airport during our 5 hour layover, before the running started. It was also our first Starbucks overseas!
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