Europe Trip Day 1 Sept 4

Today was pretty uneventful. We spent the entire day in airports and on planes. Not very exciting. Our first flight from SLC to Atlanta was delayed. No one would tell us why it was delayed. The plane was at the gate and we could watch it out the window. It was making me a bit nervous to watch what appeared to be an in depth engine check. A group of a few guys seemed to be checking the engines very carefully. It didn't exactly calm my nerves to watch them.

We ended up taking off from SLC about 45 minutes late. Not a good way to start out the trip. Because of our late take off, we had very little time to make our connecting flight in Atlanta. The flight wasn't too bad actually. About 4 hours in the air.

The funny thing was that we didn't realize how little time we had between flights. We got off the plane and then thought we had plenty of time before the next flight boarded. We even went to the food court and picked up pizza for lunch. We made it to our gate and sat down to eat our pizza. It was then that we noticed that there wasn't anyone hanging out by the gate waiting to board. That seemed a little weird to us, but not too alarming. A few seconds later they made the announcement for the final boarding call for our flight. We barely made it. We spent the rest of the day on the plane headed for London.