Getting Home

More Airport madness!
We left for the airport at 4am and check in fine. There was a 45 min delay leaving Florence, which means we might miss our connection home. We have to run to the self connection kiosk in Amsterdam, which tells us its too late to check in for our connection flight to Houston through the machine, and have to check in at the flight gate. Check the big board, it's literally at the other end of the airport. Amsterdam is by far the biggest airport I've been in, bigger than D.C's (at least it feels like) also, there's no terminal train system. We run there, I'm nearly dead, check in, and....it's the wrong Houston flight....yup, there are 2 flights to Houston leaving within 10 mins of each other and we just ran 25 mins to the wrong gate. She called our gate and told them to wait and we made it, thanks to the extra security going on, we arrived just as the last people were getting padded down.
We land in Houston, 13 hours later, and our bags our still in Amsterdam.
Hopefully they will be delivered tomorrow evening...
Moral of the story: Italy was great, but try not get there without flying...