Adventures from abroad. And her husband: Eyjafjallajökull

Eyjafjallajökull - the volcano eruption in Iceland.

Go ahead. Try to pronounce it. Now look away and spell it. Not so much. Since I am the nicest blogger EVER, I am going to attach a video explaining how to pronounce it properly.

Okay, this video just made me laugh so I thought I’d share.

I am only guessing that this dude knows what the sam hill he’s saying…

When we initially heard about the volcano, we honestly didn’t think much of it. We certainly didn’t think it was going to cause this much chaos in the travel industry! Darron and I are glad we are both here in Moscow and don't have any travel plans in the next couple weeks. We have several friends who are stuck somewhere, have family that are stuck HERE, have travel plans that have been postponed, or have visitors that have had to cancel or postpone their trips. We are one of those “have visitors that have had to cancel their trip” people. We are bummed that our friend Mika from Finland had to cancel his trip to see us this weekend. He was in Greece, and after a week, finally made it back to Finland. He spent a few days in Belgium too. A few other volcano stories from friends:

Jennie’s husband David has been back in the states for over a week longer than he was supposed to! They are trying to find a flight for him through Japan but no luck yet!

Krista’s mom has been here from Canada for 3 weeks. She was supposed to leave this morning and Lufthansa isn’t flying out of Moscow until at least tomorrow (Friday). With all the backlogged flights, they were able to guarantee her a seat on a flight on MAY 3rd! That’s almost 2 weeks longer than she was supposed to be here! They suggested she go to the airport every day and try and get an earlier standby flight!

My friend Erin’s (who I just went to see in London in March) parents were supposed to arrive in London from Boston yesterday. That didn’t happen. Their flight was cancelled just a few hours before the British air space re-opened.

Hopefully my mom has no issues with her visit in May!