The Airport Drama, Part 2

After nearly ruining our trip from the start, we arrived in Amsterdam an hour late due to some problems or whatever. At this point we didn't really care because we were so happy that we hadn't lost all of our money, nothing was going to get us down now. We headed for the baggage carousel to retrieve our bags. Charles was really impressed by the carousel because it had a display that said when the bags would start coming out! And they actually started coming out when the monitor said! Nothing like the airport in Rome where you don't know if your bags will ever come out or will ever even arrive at their destination.

One our our bags came out towards the end, then we waited and waited and waited. It was Allie's bag and the one that didn't have all of our coins. Finally the monitor said that all of the bags had been unloaded but there were about 5 people standing around with the same look as we had on our faces so we figured that they were missing bags too. A woman came to the carousel and explained that our bags didn't make the trip from our layover point to Amsterdam. We went to an office and gave them our contact information and where we were staying so they could deliver the bag to us when it arrived.

They thought it would arrive that evening about 730, but of course, it didn't. In fact it was a full day later before it showed up so Charles had to wear the same stank clothes for 2 days, not very nice. Finally the bag showed up to our place and I tore into it, not for new socks but to check to see if the coins were missing or not. They were gone! Well, not exactly. The nice person had taken the time to take our all of the one and two Euro coins leaving us with the 50 cent and smaller coins and in total about 4 Euros.

So, without a doubt, we would have lost over 500 Euros had we left our money in the bag. Now we've decided after having stuff stolen two times in our last two flights that will take advantage of the security wrap thing that you have to pay for. At least, then you have the piece of mind that your luggage isn't being rifled through by some scumbag.