Greetings from Austria

Oh my god, I am in Europe. It's feeling pretty surreal. Helga seems really nice. We went for Chinese food. It's different that the stuff back home, but oh so good. The flight(s), were alright. The travel agent and me near all the emergency exits, so I didn't the best view all the time, but it felt safe. The trip got off to rocky start when I was in Sudbury, the ticket agent, told me my ticket from Sudbury to TO was not valid. Can you say near heart failure? I had to call my travel agent collect in Sask. to get it all straightened out. So that was that. Grandparents dropped me off at the airport. My parents and little sis met me in TO. It was so pretty departing TO was like a sea of lights, with the cars acting like a ribbon. (I had to take a bus from the main terminal to another one to get the flight, weird. Frankfurt was different, it was more patches of lights (it was early morning). My connecting flight was delayed an hour (oh yeah, btw one of the best things, was that I checked my luggage in Suds, and didn't have to handle it until Wein (Vienna), When I departed to Wien, frankfurt looked more like a see of white houses with red roofs. I finally have a foreign stamp in my passport. YAY. So a trio of a welcoming committee. Nice people. Two guys to carry the bags, we took to trams to get to my place, and I live on the third floor no elevator. Huge apartment, nice big windows, just what I wanted! So that is my arrival in Europe. ( Btw in true shopaholic style, I looked smart by reading the Financial times_ I think it was the only english language paper, but yeah. Totally surprised that the keyboards are different here, things aren't in the same places, it will take some getting used to.