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Have yourself an early little Christmas

I went to my parents’ on Friday night, and we celebrated Christmas early since I’m going to be in Russia for the holiday. We had a big fancy dinner and everything. Oh yeah, and presents. I got more warm clothes.

So here I am, once again blogging at Orlando International Airport. The snowstorms in Europe have delayed my flight by a couple of hours, causing me to have to take a later flight to St. Petersburg. Hopefully everything will work out okay. At least I’m not like the sad people at the gate next to us, whose flight to London is delayed ten hours.

Just as my last international flight from this airport (to London, as a matter of fact) was filled with British families going home from Disney World, so this flight to Germany is filled with Germans going home from Disney World. Well, not all of them are. Some people are catching a flight from Germany to India. Poor them; I was behind them in line at the check-in counter, and because the flight was delayed they would miss their flight to India, and they didn’t have the papers to be able to stay. Not sure what happened to them.

Incidentally, I stood in that line for three hours. Much of that time I was waiting to rebook the flight to St. Petersburg.

Also, I’m happy to report that I didn’t have to go through the evil naked body scanner or get groped. Others weren’t so lucky. I heard a TSA agent say “I need a female over here,” and saw a girl younger than me get invasively patted down.

As I said, hopefully the rest of my journey will go smoothly. I think things will work out.