Travel to Armenia

We left our house on Mon., Dec. 19th at 10:30am and met the mission president in the Yerevan, Armenia airport at 6:00am Wed., Dec. 21st which was about 30 travel hours plus an 11 hours time change ahead.  We flew to Chicago and then Munich, Germany and on to Vennice, Austria and then to Yerevan.  In Munich they suggested putting us on an earlier flight as a snow storm was coming.  They were late calling our flight.  As we waited the snow started and the runway was covered so I saw 6 John Deere tractor snowplows lined up side by side clearing the one runway.  We took a bus to the plane and then waited for an hour on the plane for our turn on the one runway.  The most exciting part was when 2 large trucks with cherry pickers de-iced our lane with hoses that had the force of a fire hydradrant.  Then on safely to Armenia.