Day One – 24 Sep 2008
We were not sure Wayne & Diane were going to make it out of Arabia in time to make our flight out of Bahrain. When they had returned from Bahrain 4 days earlier there had been a computer glitch on the Saudi side of the Bahrain/Saudi causeway causing them a several hour delay getting across. (In fact, the back-up on the causeway was so great, that Bahrain had to close the causeway for a while because they literally couldn’t get any more cars on it!)
This “computer glitch” affected about 19,000 people. Even though they had returned to Arabia, the computer was showing they were still “out of the country.” It was the day before we left that Wayne & Diane became aware of the problem. They had to turn their passports in and then we met some official on the causeway where we waited for 2 hours for them to fix this “computer glitch” and return their passports.
After a red-eye special from Bahrain through Abu Dhabi we arrived in Munich, where we picked up a rental car.
We were not sure Wayne & Diane were going to make it out of Arabia in time to make our flight out of Bahrain. When they had returned from Bahrain 4 days earlier there had been a computer glitch on the Saudi side of the Bahrain/Saudi causeway causing them a several hour delay getting across. (In fact, the back-up on the causeway was so great, that Bahrain had to close the causeway for a while because they literally couldn’t get any more cars on it!)
This “computer glitch” affected about 19,000 people. Even though they had returned to Arabia, the computer was showing they were still “out of the country.” It was the day before we left that Wayne & Diane became aware of the problem. They had to turn their passports in and then we met some official on the causeway where we waited for 2 hours for them to fix this “computer glitch” and return their passports.
After a red-eye special from Bahrain through Abu Dhabi we arrived in Munich, where we picked up a rental car.
While we were waiting for the shuttle to take us to the rental car, Wayne wanted to sit down. This is all he could find. (We were hoping it was not an omen of what was to come.)
We drove from Munich to Berchtesgaden, Germany which is just on the border of Austria and Germany. Everything was so green and lush – such a contrast to where we had just come from. All of the windows had flower boxes that were full of blooming geraniums, petunias and all variety of flowers.
After we got checked into our hotel, we drove to the salt mine near Hallein. They had us all wear white coveralls to protect our clothing.
Inside the mine are two slides – one about 27 feet long and one about 42 feet long.
2 comments:
Those slides look SO FUN! Love the expression on Mom's face.
I LOVE those slides! What fun they were. Glad you were able to finally post pictures.
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