en route

We (my sisters and I) have arrived at the last leg of our long day-and-a-half of travel. We are currently waiting in the Frankfurt airport for our flight to Barcelona to visit our mom for her fiftieth birthday. We are holding up relatively well, despite a terrifying bout of the worst turbulence I have ever experienced (on the Los Angeles to Toronto flight - seriously, I thought we were done), an embarrassing, and truly spectacular, ketchup explosion AND a Coke explosion in this previously very tidy German airport, and some of us feeling a little less than one hundred percent right now. Our trip began yesterday (Tuesday) at 8 am with the drive to LAX, and then it was a quick late dinner in Toronto, and then breakfast and a long layover this morning in Frankfurt. It is currently 3:30 pm here in Germany, and we board our flight to Spain in about fifteen minutes, and thank the universe because I have never been readier to arrive at my destination. Nearly there. Tapas and sangria with the family, here we come!