January 7: Arrive in Wien the next morning surprisingly alert and behold two pieces of luggage were missing and I had paid overweight charges for one of them. One of our other two bags had been inspected and covered in plastic by US security—when I saw it coming, I thought it had been ripped. I don’t know why they didn’t rezip it (when we unpacked it all seemed there). We joined a line with others in the same predicament and filed a claim with Austrian Air and they assured us it would arrive the next day. Again, I had the feeling this happened to them a lot.
The university staff member who greeted us drove us into the city and we went to the university and got a tour and keys for the apartment and school. Lugged everything over to our apartment (which is on the 3rd floor overlooking a courtyard)—it is only about a block from school. We bought a few grocery items (finally we will be eating real bread!). We decided to walk down to the Ring and fight off our weariness and try to get a normal sleep pattern established. After the great meals on Austrian Air, I can’t say we were very hungry. It was hovering around freezing.
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