How not to do Serbia in a week...Part 1

Well, as some of you know Matt and I are back in the states. Serbia didn't quite work out. So to let everyone know how are week in Serbia went and the reason we are back so soon, we have decided to just put the whole story on the blog site. We didn't get a chance to write anything on the blog site while we were over there because we were busy trying to get everything figured out and our time spent on the internet was in internet cafes emailing people with legal issues. So get ready...cause it is quite a story. You might not believe some of it...but I promise everything from sleeping in airports to spending the night in Turkish mafia hotels, to being told that it was okay to bribe officials is completely true. So here we go....
THE FIRST FLIGHT:
We left KC on Thursday, August 27th on a flight to Chicago. While in the air, the pilot came on the intercom and told us that there were tornados in Chicago and that the air traffic controllers tower had been evacuated so we would be landing in Indianapolis for a while. He also added that we didn't have enough gas to keep circling around. So everyone on the plane was completely okay with landing :) We ended up sitting on the run way for about 3 hours. They let us off the plane for 30 min. to grab dinner and to stretch our legs. We got back on the plane and sat for 3 more hours. Finally, when we thought they were going to say we were staying in Indianapolis, they reported that we were going to Chicago. YEAH!!!
CHICAGO:
So we get to Chicago around 9:30 p.m. Our flight to Vienna Austria was suppose to leave at 4:45 p.m. We had figured that there was no way that it had left yet because of the tornados. However, we found out that there had been an hour window (between tornados) that flights had left and so our flight had left right on time. Lucky them :) We tried to call the international flight center but it was closed and didn't open until 9 the next day. So because of all of the cancelled flights and delays, the airport brought in 1000 cots and set them up in the baggage claim area. MAtt and I were lucky because we got an early lead on this so we were the first people to claim a cot. We ended up in a corner with only 7 or 8 other cots. To picture this...picture a refugee camp. Cots were set up every where and people that didn't get a cot had broken down the cardboard boxes and were sleeping on them. People were covering up with their clothes and using their clothes as pillows. The night sounds consisted of snoring, airline intercoms, and the creaking of cots. At 4:00 a.m. we got our wake up call because they were cleaning up the cots and the baggage claim area. We headed over to the international terminal to figure out our flight. Once we were over there we found out that the Austrian Airlines didn't open until 12:00 or 1:00. So we headed back to where we had come from. We waited in line for around 30 min. and finally got seats reserved for a 4:45 flight. We hung out in the international airport for the rest of the day and finally got on the plane. Lucky for us we were able to get onto all of our flights and finally arrive in Serbia. When flying on Austrian Airlines we were surprised by the airplane. The seats were bright green with bright red seatbelts. There were bright colored clothes laying over the head rests and the walls of the airplane were baby blue. The attendants were decked out in red suits, red panty hose, red shoes and baby blue scarves around their necks. It was quite a sight. So overall our trip to Serbia took from 1:27 p.m. on August 27th to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday , August 29th.

Okay...we are getting ready to go to dinner so I will continue our story afterwards.