Honeymoon: Day 7

We were up bright and early on Day 7.  It was time to go home.

We arrived at the airport two hours before our departure time.  Our itinerary listed our flight as through Air Italia, but every ticketing agent we tried to work with told us that they couldn't help us.  Finally we found a lady that told us that Delta had cancelled our reservation, and that she was going to have to put us on as standby.  We checked our bags with her, and went to the area for standby check in.  I'm now a bit panicked.  What if we don't make this flight?  Then we won't make our connection which we are confirmed and checked into!  What if our bags don't make the flight?  So much that can go wrong......and I'm a big worrier anyway.

After checking in with the standby desk, we went to grab breakfast.  We each got a Coke Light and split a ham and Swiss on foccacia bread.   We also had these little cream puff pastries that I couldn't resist.  They were wonderful.  Finally 30 minutes passed, and the man working the desk informed us that we were confirmed on our flight, and we could go to the gate.  Hooray!  We were on our way home, but we weren't seated together.

View from window on flight from Rome to Milan

We had two stops before we made it to Little Rock.  Our first stop was in Milan.  I wish we could have had a bit of time to venture out of the airport, but we had less than two hours to make our connection.  We went straight to the gate for our next flight, but found out that we should have claimed our bags after landing in Milan and then re-checked them.  Great......another huge ordeal to stress me out.  The women working the Delta desk were quite helpful though, and were able to get our bags to the plane after a good 20-30 minutes of phone calls.

Once on the plane, we could finally relax.  We had our extra 6" of leg room, and were ready to relax.  There were four movies shown on our flight from Milan to Atlanta.  First was "Rise of the Planet of the Apes".  We both were asleep before we made it to the end, and I woke to catch the last hour of "Mr. Popper's Penguins".  If you haven't seen this movie, I wouldn't suggest investing any time into it.  Next up was "Jumping the Broom".  I had never heard of this movie, but it kept my attention better than the previous two options.  Last we saw "Larry Crowne".  All in all, the four movies didn't really do much to make the time pass quickly.  Ten and a half hours on a plane is a bit much.

After a quick stop in Atlanta, we were on our way again.  We were home (with luggage) by 8:30pm.  We finished the evening with dinner from Chipotle, and were asleep by 10pm.  It was good to be home.