Viking Today...7/15

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.

Viking Today... 6/13

The boychoir gets into Amsterdam today at 6:30am
Amsterdam Map

They transfer to another flight and go to Berlin:
Berlin Map

They finally end up in a hostel in Strehla (as far as I can tell,here's the actual place they're staying)
Strehla Map

Interestingly enough, the official website for Strehla has a graphicup advertising "Nixenfest" with an anatomically correct toplessmermaid. (It's a cartoon, not really offensive, just interesting):
Official Website for Strehla

Strehla - First mention in historical texts, 1002 A.D.Here's a taste of what it looks like:
Strehla Picture