Family Mellmann

We arrived home on Wednesday, having caught an earlier flight from Newark to Burlington than originally scheduled. Rather than sitting in the airport for an eight hour layover, we paid to bump out flight up to an earlier departure. With this bump, we weren't sure if our two checked bags would make it. We were surprised when the first bag came around on the luggage conveyor. However, only one bag showed up. For two days Jörg monitored luggage-track websites and kept contact with our local airport. This wasn't just any old suitcase; it carries most of our souvenirs, all of Jörg's dive gear, and the usual collection of dirty laundry. The key items being souvenirs; those special items collected over the course of our travels, most of which we can't just run to the store and replace, or shop on the Internet do. After finally accepting that these items were probably gone forever, and resigning ourselves to having to replace dive gear and clothes, the call came.