Today we are going home!
We got to the airport about 10 a.m., after turning in our rental
car. The tire issue was no problem… “you
did the best thing by replacing the tire with a like tire” (as if I had
anything to do with that). Iceland air
check-in wasn’t even open yet, so we waited an hour at Starbucks. Then went back, checked in, went through
security (although Kathy beeped and had to be patted down, and they confiscated
her very dangerous blunt end scissors while ignoring the very pointed scissors
in her bag???), and headed to the Saga lounge since we were traveling First
Class. It was very nice, with plenty of
food and complimentary booze. Our flight
from Glasgow to Keflavik Airport in Iceland here was very smooth.
Now I’m sitting in the gate area of Keflavik Airport in
Iceland. Kathy & I just settled down
for an hour layover when the public address announced a list of names of people
heading to USA… including mine (though the pronunciation was pretty
garbled). Turned out to be a TSA random
security check of about 15 of us… I couldn’t let Kathy know so she was rather
worried it was something about the tickets.
They took us upstairs, scanned the barcode on our boarding passes about
5 times, and then took me into a room with a 12 year old who had me empty
pockets, take off shoes, stand on a box while she swiped my hands (top and
bottom), ankle area, and waist pocket area.
Then… “thank you” and it was done.
Would sure like to know what it all accomplished and how doing that to
pretty average looking people from 15 – 70+ made the flights safer. (15 min later)--- They just called my name
again… so K & I picked up all our bags and went to the service desk… oh oh…
their mistake… sigh.
One of the things we’ve noticed at Keflavik Airport is the
departure area is way too small for the number of people they are
transporting. There were practically no
seats to be had and it was wall to wall people.
We haven’t had opportunity to get into the main part of the terminal the
last several trips, so have lost our “gee what a nice airport” feeling.
On the brighter side, we somehow got first class tickets
when we bought Economy Comfort, so we’ve been traveling 1st class
today and this first class stuff is nice… within 5 minutes of boarding and
getting seated we were handed glasses of champagne. I could do this more often! Lots
of fancy treatment, hot towels, drinks, sound-proofing headphones, and plenty of checking in with us. The meal was weird… pretty tasty,
but I sure couldn’t name most of the things on the plate.
The trip to MSP was very smooth. We were both pretty tired as it was about
12:15 when we landed. We had to wait to
get plane to terminal and then wait long time for luggage. Taxi ride was direct and fast and we arrived
at HIEX Roseville 1:45 a.m. It didn’t
take us long to get to bed! We are very
thankful to have been able to make this trip, and have no health issues.
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| Lupine grows wild at the airport... all over between runways. |
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| Lots of fog at Keflavik, but runway lighted. |
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