We arrived at the Kiev airport at 4pm and began the fun World Race past time of hurrying up to wait. We could not check in until 5:30 so we found some expensive food and waited.
After check in we made our way to the gate. The airline we flew with does not assign seats so everyone was lining up and began pushing when the doors were opened. Again, we rushed to the bus that would take us to the plane, trying to get a good spot to stand so we could be first out of the bus and onto the plane. God decided to laugh at us because the doors opened on the opposite side of where we chose to stand!
Two hours later we landed in Memmingen Germany where a taxi needed to be called to pick the 10 of us up. 45 minutes later the 10 of us were shoved into a van and on our way to the Memmingen train station. At 10:40 we arrived at the train station. By the time we got organized and prayed we had missed the last train to Munich. (Keep in mind Munich is about an hour and a half from Memmingen.) It didn’t matter anyway because we felt like we were supposed to take the 6 hour train to Munich. This train would take us about 30 minutes to Ulm where we would wait 10 minutes and catch a train to Salzburg Austria. The train was late and while we waited we were told that the tickets we purchased were not the correct ones to take us to Salzburg. So at 2am we set up camp in the train station where we would wait until 4:46am to catch a train to Augsburg Hbf. Once we arrived in Augsburg at 6am we would wait until 9am for our next train to Munich. We ended up pulling out our sleeping bags and blankets and sleeping on the floor at both locations. We were quite the site, as we all looked like homeless people. At one point someone walked by us, laughed and made a snoring noise. It was quite comical. At 8:45 we realized that we got off the train at Augsburg Osstenstien instead of Augsburg Hauptahnof and needed to catch a train very quickly to get to the correct train station to catch our train to Munich. A quick 5 minute train would get us to our Munich bound train which we were on for about an hour and then finally landed in Munich! So at 10 am, 11 hours after we started our journey, we arrived at our destination.
