Hello,
There is a 4-5 hour layover in the Amsterdam airport so we knew we had some time to work things out. Our first task was to find a live person to talk to. They have wonderful kiosks where you can do many changes, print boarding passes, and other tasks yourself. But because we really wanted to get on the earlier plane a breathing person was required. In this very large airport we learned that is one place to yet speak with a person in front of you. Looking at a departure board revealed that our original earlier flight had been delayed for more than two hours so it was now later than the later flight we were booked on. Before we got to speak to the person we learned that the flight had been cancelled until tomorrow. We switched from feeling disgruntled to feeling grateful that we were still going to arrive on the planned day, however we still wanted to talk to a person.
This nice woman told us that they had switched Sarah and Lexi to the later flight because they wanted her to get out rather than be delayed more. She was able to print my boarding pass and get us seated together. So now we just had to wait the extra hours.
This is a great airport to be stuck in. They had a big room for infants/toddlers for sleeping. There were beds for the kids with seating built in for the caretakers. A curtain could be pulled across the area for privacy. Next door there was a playroom complete with tree houses and slides. While I stayed with Lexi Sarah scouted out public use computers so she could our ride in the US since we neither have a cell phone that works in Europe. Leroy was to pick us up on his way into the city. Because we were afraid he would not check email we told the rest of the family to call him when they read the email. It all worked and Leroy was there at about the right time.
I will continue this tale in another email, but I just wanted to let you know that I arrived safely in SLC while Leroy is at Okoboji for confirmation camp. He is the chaplin and doing fine with that.
Paula
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