Isn't Flying Fun?

Lately I am sure we are all experiencing travel tales galore. We flew from JFK to Athens and ended up being delayed for about 4 hours out of JFK. Dave and I befriended an airport bar, had a few drinks and were not worried at all, realizing the wine might actually help us sleep on the plane. We boarded our jet and found our two middle seats in the back of the plane with all the local yokels headed back to glorious Greece. The only other word we heard of English came from a very angry college student behind us who for some reason was literally dumbfounded that she did not have an electrical outlet on her armrest that she could use during the flight. Perfect. :) We quickly closed our eyes and headed off to sleep- next stop Athens.... WRONG!! We woke to the pilot explaining that we were descending into London Heathrow due to a very angry/ violent passenger in first class who was breaking glasses! We lost another few hours while "the authorities" removed the man from the plane, but at least we were left with quite an interesting story to tell. Upon landing in Athens, Dave and I collected our bags and decided to try and take the Metro to our hotel instead of a potential $60 Euro cab ride. For those of you unfamiliar, that is over $100 with the current exchange rate. When you are traveling for this long- that just doesn't fly. So.... I head to the ticket window to figure it out. I tell the nice-looking lady where I am going, she takes me money and continue to shout at me "Syngtama Change." Although I try to clarify several times, she says only these two words to me 5 times in a row. Laughing and delirious I walk back to Dave who is standing at the Metro map and I say, "Please tell me when you look at that, Syngtama Change, makes sense to you." Luckily it did and we were on our way! We made it "changing trains in Syngtama" and then on to our hotel and for only $10 euros! First travel feat down!