Final Post
On Sunday, we went back to the Polonia Palace hotel breakfast buffet before leaving for the airport. I gave the extensive list of items on the buffet in my last post, but noticed on Sunday that I had missed a few items: there was also oatmeal, olives, radishes, peppers, and pickled herring along with a few other unidentifiable kinds of fish.
After breakfast, we headed to the airport. We had a really good day of travel - flights were on time, no problems or issues. First we flew from Warsaw to Heathrow Airport in London. At Heathrow, we made the connection to JFK in New York. The flight from Heathrow to JFK was 8 hours, and Denise and I were fortunate to have no one sitting in the entire rows where we sat. So we were able to lay down across the three empty seats and sleep. Also, I discovered the Steelers game on the monitor when there was 4 minutes left in the game. I could have watched the whole game had I known it was on. I did get to watch the Patriots-Jaguars game after, and so passed the last 3 or so hours rather quickly.
When we landed in New York, we weren't looking forward to going through customs, but it was unbelievably easy. We walked up to the customs agent, he asked if we had anything to declare, we said no, he said okay, you're done, goodbye. It was that easy. We also did not have to go through customs in any of the other countries we visited. If you have nothing to declare, you just exit the airport.
Denise's husband Tom picked us up at the airport and took us back to their house in Cold Spring. It is normally about a 1 1/2 hour drive, but it took us 3 hours due to an accident along the way that backed up traffic for awhile.
Joe and I slept for a few hours Sunday night, and then got up at 5 in the morning on Monday to drive from Cold Spring to Cranberry Twp. (a 7 hour drive). We did manage to stay awake for the drive, but I have a feeling we're going to sleep well tonight.
And that concludes the Ancestral Homelands of Lithuania and Poland blog. I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks for reading.
After breakfast, we headed to the airport. We had a really good day of travel - flights were on time, no problems or issues. First we flew from Warsaw to Heathrow Airport in London. At Heathrow, we made the connection to JFK in New York. The flight from Heathrow to JFK was 8 hours, and Denise and I were fortunate to have no one sitting in the entire rows where we sat. So we were able to lay down across the three empty seats and sleep. Also, I discovered the Steelers game on the monitor when there was 4 minutes left in the game. I could have watched the whole game had I known it was on. I did get to watch the Patriots-Jaguars game after, and so passed the last 3 or so hours rather quickly.
When we landed in New York, we weren't looking forward to going through customs, but it was unbelievably easy. We walked up to the customs agent, he asked if we had anything to declare, we said no, he said okay, you're done, goodbye. It was that easy. We also did not have to go through customs in any of the other countries we visited. If you have nothing to declare, you just exit the airport.
Denise's husband Tom picked us up at the airport and took us back to their house in Cold Spring. It is normally about a 1 1/2 hour drive, but it took us 3 hours due to an accident along the way that backed up traffic for awhile.
Joe and I slept for a few hours Sunday night, and then got up at 5 in the morning on Monday to drive from Cold Spring to Cranberry Twp. (a 7 hour drive). We did manage to stay awake for the drive, but I have a feeling we're going to sleep well tonight.
And that concludes the Ancestral Homelands of Lithuania and Poland blog. I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks for reading.
Thank you! Mamma and I enjoyed it very much!
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