My Journey to USA

We were 7 ppl travelling together (Nirali , Kunal, Harsh, Zankhana , Aditi , Pranali and Myself)

Well let me start from the Mumbai Airport...
I had taken 2 bags but because of insistence of Harsh had taken 3rd extra baggage full of Tur Dal and Moong dal which is quite expensive in US ($14 per kg just imagine) ...
I had weighed every bag very accurately to 31.6kg but at the Airport in the Weighing machine it was showing abt 33 kgs so had to shift some of the luggage frm 1 bag to another ...
I was done in abt 10 mins but other girls had a tough time in getting their luggage weights to the allowable limits....

Checked in the baggage,made a call frm the PCO to talk to parents and then headed for the security check...
Everything done and we boarded the plane...
Well , I got the window seat so was very happy abt it,...

While boarding the flight I never imagined what the nxt 24 hrs would be like...

While the plane was abt to land on the Heathrow Airport (London) , I could see the entire city ..
I saw the London Bridge , the Giant Wheel near the Thames riber , some Football Stadiums as well as cricket stadiums....It was awesome view from the plane.....

Didnt have much time at the London Airport, Had to change the flight and the terminal....Boarded another flight BA185 for Heathrow to Newark ....

After Landing at Newark went for the immigration and then for the baggage claim area...And to my Horror all my bags were missing while all others had their baggages....

Went to the BA office directly and told them abt the situation ...
They gave me a tracking number, took my details abt where i was going to stay and gave me
$50 as compensation...
While completing these formalities , we missed our connecting flight AA4651 at 1.40 pm by just 5 mins...

And all 7 ppl were stranded at the airport..
We were given standby tickets for another flight AA 4659 at 5 pm ..
And to add to our frustration , the flight got cancelled ..
Now the next connecting flight to Raleigh was nxt day morning at 7.55 am from Chicago...

We pleaded the American Airlines people to give us Accomadation but they wont listen to us and kept saying that it was the fault of BA that we missed the flight...


And when we pleaded BA people , they said they couldnt give us more than $50...

Aditi had a friend , his name is Sandeep in Newark who came to meet us at the Airport ...The girls went with him at his place to freshen up while we 3 guys were at the Airport , taking care of our luggage...
1 guy used to keep a watch while other 2 slept...
The girls came after 4-5 hrs and while coming to the airport they got a pizza for us...
Sandeep was like a lucky mascot for us because as soon as he came , things started getting in place...
We insisted him to come with us to Chicago , so that nothin wrong happens with us again ....

So , We boarded the AA flight to Chicago ...
Reached Chicago at 9 am , The busiest Airport in USA...
While taking off from Chicago for Raleigh, our flight was in queue in which there were abt 5 flights ahead of us and more 5 waiting to take off behind us...
Well, the air traffic in Chicago was like road traffic seriously....We could see other planes from our window going in various directions.......


So , we reached Raleigh at 2.50 pm and were waiting in the baggage claim area.I was hoping that the only baggage left would atleats arrive safely ....

The Seniors were already at the Airport to pick us up ...
And we reached our temporary accomadation in abt 30 mins ...

The seniors gave us a warm welcome , and after I freshened up , they had kept ready Chhole and Paratha for me.....