This morning, which seems like yesterday, we started out at a Starbucks in the Houston airport that had no coffee. So we settled for water and some pastries. This started our motto for the trip, "Embrace the Suck". So if it sucks, we reframe it because we are on HOLIDAY!
As many of you know we bought Business Class tickets through Victor at a very good price and we really wanted to get all we could out of those tickets. Our thought was to check-in and go hang out in the cool lounge (for firsf class and business class). Not! It was closed do to COVID. Boo! Embracing again.
The food and the bed on the plane were awesome! I may have to take a job just to pay for Business Class again. Getting some good sleep helped with the lines we had to stand in to get through immigration. It took about an hour and a half to finish. It is stressful with all the forms that have to be filled out now.
I worried about the COVID test that we had to have for Portugal. It was supposed to be 72 hours from departure. Well, does that mean from Amarillo or Houston? What you find online about this is so confusing. What might happen might "suck" but we would embrace it.
We left Frankfurt and headed to Lisbon, not really knowing what might happen.
You know Lisbon is a 3 hour flight from Frankfurt; crazy long after the prior 10 hour flight. Let me back up a bit, the ticket agent at Houston didn't make our final destination as Lisbon, so the gate agent corrected that so that our bags would go all the way through. Well, we waited at baggage claim and guess what sucks, no baggage. Now we know where lost and found is at Lisbon's airport. Pedro turned in a baggage search form and fingers are crossed that we get clothes soon. After we took care of the luggage there came the moment of truth, would our Covid test be timely or would they put us in Covid jail. We walked under the sign that said, "nothing to declare" and there was the outside door. We were free! We made a run for the metro and didn't look back.
Now we have had a nice dinner and are heading to bed. What a day and then some.
