Traveling to Korea

So the adventure for Amber and I began on July 31st, 2011. Our family dropped us off at the Portland Airport and after some interesting events with airport security (they stopped one of our bags for "excessive liquids", because of nail polish, and then let it go)we waited for the plane. I had never flown, as an adult (only as a 2 year old kid) I was quite nervous about it all... in the end, I luckily did not throw up, but I sure felt like I would... The flight to Washington Dulles was not the greatest, but after that things went smooth.

We arrived at Dulles, and began to search for Korean Air (quite possibly the best airline in the world) only to get to the counter and be informed that we could not sit together because we did not arrive the necessary three hours early... mind you our plane from Maine only landed 20 minutes before this. In the end, the lady at Korean Air was very nice, and after some minor seat adjustments allowed us to sit together.



(Here is Amber sitting in Dulles)

and then there was the Fox News Store... which I could not help but take a picture of.



We had a rather short stop in Washington D.C. and then we boarded the plane for Seoul, South Korea. The flight attendants on Korean Air were excellent, we had a decent amount of space (nothing like first-class and their chairs that turn into beds) but it was nice. Every seat had its own TV which you could use to watch movies, shoes, play games, check flight information (like where the hell the plane was) and even listen to cds or the radio -- this helped make the 13.5 hour ride semi-enjoyable. I managed to watch "Unknown", "The Lincoln Lawyer", "Sucker Punch", and "Red Riding Hood" and still have 5 plus hours to go.

The food was very good, I even tried to traditional Korean lunch on the plane. They served us snacks, lunch, dinner, and some other foods. You could also buy things from the duty-free store, such as $2200 dollar bottles of boozes, jewelry, and perfumes.

We finally landed in Seoul and had to make it through customs and immigration in order to find our bags. We rather easily found the luggage, and made it to the new Korean Air Counter were we had to re-check our bags. That was easy except for security stopping both of Amber's bags because she had too many hair-sprays and we had to more them to other cases and then into her carry-on bag.

We had yet another lay-over, and then boarded the plane to Daegu. The flight only lasted roughly an hour and we got to our rooms at 9:30pm, the following day (in comparison to when we left.