[BlissMom]

I know some people who are at the beginning of the process and want to show them that the worst travel experiences often make the best stories.

These are adoption TRAVEL related horror stories.. not adoption related (i.e. losing referral, bad agency etc.)

Ours took place the morning we left our region on trip 1. I was an absolute wreck at having to leave my precious little girl half way across the world. I sat on the flight with my head pressed against the window to hide the constant stream of tears and mascara running down my face. The two hour flight felt like an eternity.. I looked at my watch.. it had been three hours.. hmm.. that's weird?
Finally we land. I look out the window and see the ground covered in snow. "That's weird, it must have snowed in Moscow while we were gone, it wasn't this snowy when we left"
So we sit and sit. My husband and I assume the bus that takes you the ten yards from the plane to the terminal was delayed. So we sit and sit. Finally an announcement comes and everyone shuffles in their seat. We have no idea what they were saying but I was getting ill from the gas fumes that seemed to be piped into the plane.. it turns out the Moscow airport was fogged in and we had to sit ON THE PLANE on the Nitzny Novograd tarmac for TWELVE HOURS.. every hour they said it would be one more hour. We were on that plane a total of 15 hours when we arrived in Moscow. And the next morning we had another sixteen hours of travel to get home!

We did however meet the band members of a very famous Russian popstar on the flight. One of whom did his best to translate announcements for us and let us use his cell phone to call our agency and our family back in the states! Talk about the kindness of strangers!. It was really interesting to us that they all just sat there.. nobody complained.. the next day we had a ten minute wait in customs at JFK and the guy ahead of us was going ballistic demanding to talk to the manager... He wouldn't have done so well on that flight!

Now let's hear yours!