May 7, 2016 Day 1:

Today we spent much of our day traveling.  Starting in Pittsburgh, we traveled to the Pittsburgh airport, a place in which I am pretty familiar with.  Though I have no recollection of the last time I flew in a plane, I live about 20 minutes away from the airport and travel there frequently to go to restaurants. Once we got to the airport, our waiting began.  We waited in line to check in our luggage, and to my surprise, my bag was only 24.6 pounds, 25.4 pounds underweight! Going through customs and security was pretty painless, for putting my carry on belongings into the scanner was the only thing that stressed me out. The wait was not that long to board our plane, which made me pretty happy, because waiting is not my forte.  Once on the plane, I got a little more nervous as they were checking everything out to make sure we were all safe.  When we took off, I felt like I was on a tame roller coaster, and before I knew it we were in the air.  I felt a lot more secure when we were up and going, but there was a little turbulence due to storm clouds in Newark.  The ride to Newark was only 50 minutes, which was surprisingly fast to me, but that's only because I'm used to taking coach buses everywhere.  Once in the airport, we saw the New York skyline across the bay, which was a sight to see.  I never saw New York in person, so I took in as much as I could.  Now it's time to wait some more until we can board our non-stop flight to Munich.  I am feeling very excited at my opportunity to go on this trip, and I cannot wait to see everything Germany has to offer!

Interesting sight of the day: Well I was above the clouds, but there are also stray birds in this airport. They don't need to be here; they have their own wings.