Waiting to board flight in Chicago

Our trip began this morning at 10 am with our departure from GHS.  Mr. Kirkton drove us to the airport.   We checked in and then hung out until the flight boarded.  The flight to Helsinki was 8 hours and 50 minutes.  The sun dipped very low in the horizon, but never went down, even though it was night.  During part of the trip we could see mountains and glaciers as we flew over Greenland.  We landed in Helsinki at 8:30 am (1:30 am Goshen time) and settled down for an 8 hour layover.  We slept on hard seats in the terminal and generally felt miserable.  We were all glad to board our flight to Muenchen.  We landed in Muenchen 2 hours later, picked up our luggage and took a 40 minute train ride to the center of the city and checked in to our hotel.  We then walked a bit in the old part of the city, found some Turkish food for supper, and then headed back to the hotel for showers and some much needed sleep.