And so it begins…

 


Departing MSP on our way to Amsterdam as of 7:30pm Thursday.  We took the shuttle from Baldwin with almost record time through TSA (literaly a few minutes).   We had a nice meal at Chick-fil-a and worked on our Croatian until boarding.  I’m reading Michael Perry’s ‘Hunker’ and Anne has her choices of reading material.  We have a four hour layover in Amsterdam, and a two hour flight to Zagreb.  We could be in Zagreb as of 9am your time Friday. 

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