Summer 2013 Chapter 7 - Amberg and the trip home

Monday, July 16, we were all tired of driving so we visited Amberg, a little picturesque town about 20 miles from Vilseck.  First, we stopped at a store that Jami described as "Germany's Wal-Mart" and she was pretty accurate.  I found a travel pillow just like the one Juli had and that I had been envying - it doubles as a neck pillow as well as a little square "huggie" pillow.  

Next, we visited the more picturesque and old section of Amberg.

We are in the shade so it is difficult to see Jami, Kason, and Juli in the market square.

I liked this business- this was above the entrance

And this was, too.  I have NO IDEA what was inside....wool, mutton, baby sheep

Check out the golden lions

and this fountain

This little ship was at the corner of a building. Poor pigeons will have to find another place to hang out

Tuesday, Jami drove us to Munich where we caught our plane.  Boy, the Munich airport is huge - we got out of the car where we thought our airline was located and we ended up hauling our luggage at least a quarter of a mile (it felt like longer!) to the Iceland Air desk.

When booking my return flight, I inadvertently bought an Economy Plus ticket which meant I got a slightly better seat and amenities.  I got a little travel packet with a sleep mask, ear phones, socks.  I got free meals - gluten-free ones, too, and a little more room -only two seats per row rather than three.  I have only flown economy so I really felt like a queen.

Here we are awaiting our flight.

I had a window seat all the way and got a great shot of Iceland as we approached.

Here is somewhere cold (maybe Greenland or Newfoundland?) from my window seat.  Can you see the chunks of ice in the river above?



Juli and I landed in Denver sometime in the late afternoon.  Neither one of us slept well on the flight home so we just zoned out in the Denver airport as we waited for our individual flights - Juli to Phoenix and me to Kansas City.  We both then had two hour drives before falling into our own lovely beds.  I don't know how Juli made it up to Payson in the middle of the night.  My plane landed in Kansas City 15 minutes after midnight where Steve met me.  I managed to keep up both awake and alert as we drove back to Columbia with me relating all my tales of an amazing trip to Europe, summer 2013.