Note: I wrote this during our trip and apparently it never uploaded. So here it is a few days late!
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We left Friday for BWI and traffic was terrible on 95 and the BW parkway so it took us almost twice as long to get there as it normally would. Luckily we left plenty of time to get there.
This was our first time flying with WOW Airlines and booking the ticket I did notice that carry on bags had super strict weight and size limits but I thought 11 pounds (5kg) would be more than enough for 3.5 days. Of course the night before we were packing and weighing our bags and 11 pounds fills up really quickly. If you don't pay for your checked bag over 24 hours in advance it's about $75! So we were very determined to make it work- which we did but it was really frustrating and time consuming and one of the reasons we won't fly WOW again.
The check in desk was in a quiet deserted terminal (E) that I'd never been in before. There were zero security lines since I think our plane was only one of two leaving that day. There was one overcrowded restaurant where I got a mediocre grilled cheese for the flight.
The flight left about 30-45 minutes late which was pretty lame. There was a lot of turbulence but the length (about 6 hours) wasn't bad. I thought it was also pretty lame that you had to pay for everything (even water) though I knew that in advance I guess I didn't realize how annoying it would be.
We were sitting next to a man from Reykjavik on his way home from visiting DC and Pittsburgh. It was really interesting hearing his observations about how different Iceland and the US were. I think my favorite thing he said was that while he was in Pittsburgh people were "hanging out on their porches like in the movies!" Also in Pittsburgh he went to a gun range to shoot an AR15 and showed us a video of him shooting it which seemed super weird to show while on a plane. He was very surprised by gas heating because everything in Iceland is heated by radiators.
Anyway we landed around 5:30am and basically just walked into Iceland. There were zero lines at passport control and then there wasn't even a customs area to go through. So, I thought we would be in Reykjavik soon but we got on the bus to the city and just sat there for half an hour. Then we got to the bus depot and switched to a smaller van and pretty much everyone was dropped off before us. I was very tired and annoyed. We didn't even get into our room until about 8am and I was so thankful we had a room to go to!
Okay that's about it for the flight and getting to Reykjavik. I'll make a separate post about the marathon first day!
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