First, let me say that we made it from Louisville to Stockholm in one piece safely, but traveling, especially with airlines, is hardly ever a straight line. Our original plan called for us to fly from Louisville to Newark, layover for about an hour in Newark, then fly on to Sweden. Unfortunately our plans were doomed right from the start because the flight to Newark was delayed for almost precisely the amount of time we had for the layover, so we arrived in Newark about three minutes after our flight to Stockholm had taken off. We had found out, however, that there was another flight to Stockholm through Amsterdam that was going to leave about 6:40, approximately one hour from the time we had landed. Silly us, we thought we could actually make that flight.
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