Get your "Welcome Home" balloons and signs ready! It'll only be a matter of hours now until we see our boys. I'm sure they've all grown a foot taller, and, in my own son's case, gone another octave lower vocally. They start out 4,565 miles away now, but will at in our arms soon.
The boys leave Munich at 11:50 am their time (4:50 am our time) on NWA flight 8516. They take a 737 from Munich International Airport (airport code MUC) to Amsterdam-Schiphol, Netherlands (airport code AMS). They are due to arrive in Amsterdam at 1:30 PM ( 6:30 am our time).
A little side note for our buddy Jack Z: the Amsterdam airport was in the news a while back for painting flies on their urinals.
From Amsterdam they are to take an A330-300 for NWA flight 0055 to Minneapolis (good ol' MSP). The flight is scheduled to arrive at 5:25 pm our time, but it will feel like 12:25 am Wed. in their brains.
I would guess the boys will try to nap on the flight and they will be very excited and awake to see their families at the airport, but they will crash into their beds (their own beds, finally) by the time they get home. We plan to go out to dinner as a family (getting as many details as we can!) after the airport, and then put Riley to bed.
Showing posts with label Munich. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Munich. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
Viking Today...7/14
The boys' itinerary only says they'll be moving from Graz to Munich as step one of their return for home. Looks like that drive is about four hours.
I think Roger said in an update that they were actually heading back to Eichenau, a suburb west of Munich, to stay with the same people that hosted them earlier in the tour. Looks like that'll tack an extra 20 minutes or so onto the drive. I'm sure the choirboys will all be excited to share the news of their time in Graz at the World Choir Olympics with their hosts.
Perhaps they will see scenes like these on their drive today. Unfortunately for the boys, they are leaving Austria to early to take part in the Lederhosen Festival. I'm sure they're very upset about that. (Actually, Riley probably would be sad to miss that...)
I think Roger said in an update that they were actually heading back to Eichenau, a suburb west of Munich, to stay with the same people that hosted them earlier in the tour. Looks like that'll tack an extra 20 minutes or so onto the drive. I'm sure the choirboys will all be excited to share the news of their time in Graz at the World Choir Olympics with their hosts.
Perhaps they will see scenes like these on their drive today. Unfortunately for the boys, they are leaving Austria to early to take part in the Lederhosen Festival. I'm sure they're very upset about that. (Actually, Riley probably would be sad to miss that...)
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Viking Today... 7/3
Today the boys are heading from Ellwangen to Munich. Google says it's about 2 hours on the road.
Now, first off... Wikipedia is telling me that there's two places in Germany known as Munich. One of them is northeast of Nuremberg. I'm going to assume it's the big one near the alps. A population of about 1.5 million people, it really is pretty big. Hennepin county has a population of 1.1 million but has nearly 3 times the area. Imagine how dense it is there! In Hennepin county, it's about 2,000 people in every square mile. In Munich, it's 12,470 per square mile!
The wiki page is pretty complete with pictures. Instead of linking to them all here, I suggest just checking out the wiki page today. The German wiki page has some pictures the English one doesn't.
Panorama #1
Panorama #1
I'll just link to the picture-map overlay again since there's so many pictures to wade through... but here's a couple that I thought were interesting:
Inside a Cathedral
Part of their Olympic park
Castle Haimhausen
The contact address for today is in a town just outside of Munich called Eichenau.
Now, first off... Wikipedia is telling me that there's two places in Germany known as Munich. One of them is northeast of Nuremberg. I'm going to assume it's the big one near the alps. A population of about 1.5 million people, it really is pretty big. Hennepin county has a population of 1.1 million but has nearly 3 times the area. Imagine how dense it is there! In Hennepin county, it's about 2,000 people in every square mile. In Munich, it's 12,470 per square mile!
The wiki page is pretty complete with pictures. Instead of linking to them all here, I suggest just checking out the wiki page today. The German wiki page has some pictures the English one doesn't.
Panorama #1
Panorama #1
I'll just link to the picture-map overlay again since there's so many pictures to wade through... but here's a couple that I thought were interesting:
Inside a Cathedral
Part of their Olympic park
Castle Haimhausen
The contact address for today is in a town just outside of Munich called Eichenau.
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