Friday was a travel day, but not having to leave until noon, Anne and Jeff were able to make it to the gym. We took Bailey to the kennel, put the final touches on packing and loaded the car. We left the house around noon, giving ourselves plenty of time for the 5:00 pm flight out of Chicago. We had reserved a parking spot at an off-sight parking garage, so our challenge was to navigate the traffic around O'Hare and find the garage. It was smooth sailing to the airport from there. With very few people and many security lines, we were at our gate by 2:40. That left plenty of time for Jeff and Erika to go back to the check in counter to retrieve the file folder with all of our travel info that Jeff left behind. There were many more people going through security the second time.
Having landed at Logan in Boston, we had about one hour and thirty minutes to make our connection. Following the sings to the international terminal, we took a long obscure route through narrow halls, outside and back in to the terminal. We waited in a very long line to go through security again. We kept noticing that people were getting up to the point where they checked the boarding passes and being turned away. When it was our turn, we found out why. Apparently, the boarding passes we printed in Chicago, were not "real" boarding passes. We had to hustle to the Aer Lingus ticket counter and get the real boarding passes and use the priority line to get back to the front of the long line. It was at this point that the security decided to announce that if you had a United Boarding pass, you had to recheck with the international carrier before getting in line--thanks for the heads up. We hurried to the gate and got on the plane. We were late in leaving because there were many others in that long security line who were in the same boat (plane). We all shard the same row on the plane, so it made for great family time. A long flight and attempts at sleep we landed safely and on time in Dublin.
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