The trip over

So we have left the land of the airport autoflush toilets (Ash and I both got caught in Toronto - we moved but didn't get up and so got a little wet)!
After a little wait in Toronto airport, we headed off to Frankfurt. The plane was delayed by an hour as we had to wait for the freezing rain to decrease and then needed to have deice-ing stuff sprayed on the plane before it took off. We were a little worried since we needed to be ready to board 50 minutes after we landed in Frankfurt and that was now a problem since we had left later than expected. It was an uneventful flight of about 7 and a half hours to Germany. Once we got passed the middle of the ocean(ish) all of the announcements on the plane were in English, French and Germany so it took a while to find anything out.

Once we landed in Frankfurt it took a while to get off the plane - as it always does when you are in a hurry. We were told to go and talk to the service people to see if we could get to our flight once we had landed. So we rushed off and they said "Go to A19. It is down the corridor and up the stairs." So we went down the corridor and up the stairs and then along the escalator and up the 6 flights of stairs (lift was too small) and then along a very long set of travellators (3 of them) and then down 6 flights of stairs and then along three corridors, through the baggage check area (three zig/zaggy lines worth of waiting) along another and to the area for the flight to Duesseldorf and we were only 1 hour late for boarding. Luckily, they were 1 hour behind with boarding, and then it became another 2 1/4 hours later and then we finally got to board the plane. At the same time, we kind of/sometimes had mobile phone coverage and so could kind of/sometimes let Katrin know what was going on.

Finally we got to board the plane, put our boarding passes in the machine and then.... walked down 4 flights of stairs to the road!!!!! Then we got on a bus (we trusted them, but really had no clue). 15 minutes later the bus had driven us past all of the terminals to where our plane was parked in the plane parking lot out the back. We stood in the snow while we waited to board. When we got on board we waited another 2 hours for the 15 extra suitcases to be found and unloaded and the plane to be de-iced. Finally we are in the air and 45 minutes later we are in Duesseldorf. Yay!!!
Except...... we have no luggage because due to "technical difficulties" the luggage carousel wasn't working. Then, it began to spin, there was much cheering and an annoucement. It would be a while until we got the luggage due to the snow. Then, finally we are with the Koesters.