Business Trip - Day 1...

Today was the day that I had to go on a 2 day business trip for my company to the get all the details about upcoming changes in the update of our accounting software. And it was also time to voice some things of that software that I wasn't particularly happy about, if there isn't a differnt way to address certain accounting issues. This was the reasin a couple of co-workers and I had to go on a business tripp to Karlsruhe/Germany.
The day started as pretty much every other day I have to work. Got up went with Daisy for her usual walk and then I had breakfast. I had already packed the suitcase on Sunday. I had booked the cab to pick me up at 7.15 amd and they were supposed to call me 5 minutes prior to their arrival. The one thing that didn't happen was the call. So the cabbie rang I still had to get fully dressed. Grabbed the suitcase and called for Daisy. But she was so confused that it took some convincing that she was going to come with me. Put her into the back of the cab and off we went to the boarding facility on the outskirts of Vienna. It took us about 40 minutes to get there.
I walked with Daisy into the facility and we had to wait a couple of minutes for Daisy's room to be ready. But all the doggy smell and all the barking got the better of Daisy. She just set down on the floor and peed. Although she had just been out 1 1/2 hours ago. I dawned on me that this place might bring back some distant memories of her time at the shelter. She walked with me to her room. I stayed with her there for a couple of minutes, but she so didn't show any interest in the room or the fact that a little garden area came with that room. She didn't even care about me petting her and she didn't even look at me when I had to walk out of the room. That was actually pretty hard for me, as it made my heart heavy. I then filled out all the paperwork and arranged with the facility manager, that I would pick up Daisy on Wednesday between 6 and 7 pm.
I than took the cab to work. The entire fun with the cab cost about 50 bucks. Lucky for me it was a kinda busy workday and that way my thoughts weren't constantly with Daisy. By 3.30 pm my co-workers and I had to leave for Vienna International Airport. A cab picked us up at work and we got to the airport in no time. We had already checked in online prior to our arrival and were going to check our suitcases as carry-on. That way we didn't have to stand in line. All the security requirements are getting more and more ridiculous. Most of the requirements I'm still used to from my time living in the States. But to take a way a persons shaving cream when there's barely anything left in the can...well that's just pointless. I joked about it..."and so I will be unshaven for 2 days..". And I don't that serious anyways. We than sat in the transit area and enjoyed a drink, while waiting for aur flight to be ready for boarding. The flight was uneventful. But I still love the taking off and landing part of flying. The snacks you get on the 1 hour flight to Stuttgart are just a joke. Before offering me the choice between an apple or a small bar of chocolate...don't offer my anything at all.
At all that time we were never asked to show our passport. But you still have to carry it with you, since you can be checked for your passport. We got off at Stuttgart International Airport in Germany and had to figure out a way to get from there to Karlsruhe. The don't offer a Airport Taxi Driver service between those 2 cities. So one of my co-workers found a cab for a reasonable fair and we went to Karlsruhe. Took us about 45 minutes to get there and then we checked into the hotel.
After we had checked in we agreed to meet 15 minutes later for dinner. So we went to a local beerhall nearby and had some good German food and some tasty beer and got to talk in a non-work setting. All in all day 1 of the business trip went of without a hitch. Around 11 pm we called in the night and returned to the hotel. I checked my eMails, Twitter and FB and was very happy that the Roaming Feature of my cell worked without any problems. Before heading to be I got to chat with my special guy a little and that made it less weird not having Daisy at my side. And I really did miss her company.