Touchdown Seattle

Our feet have landed on Washington soil. We made our connection at Heathrow with time to spare, despite the plane being a little late and having to sit on the runway for 5 mintuse waiting for a space to clear (which would not have been so bad except that I really had to go to the bathroom and you CANNOT get up from your seat while on the runway). Our connecting plane had been late as well, so that worked out well. Getting off the plane, I thought I had seen Amanda and Connie get off ahead of me, so I started walking rather fast and looking for them, but I couldn't see them ahead and I didn't see them behind. I concluded they were really far ahead, so I just kept walking (praying for a bathroom in short order). Stopped off at the bathroom, once I found it, and still did not see them upon exiting, so I just kept going toward the main part of the terminal. Found the reader board and ascertained the gate number, with still no sign of them, so I assumed they were headed to the gate. Once I got there...no Connie or Amanda! Where could they be? Turns out I had disembarked before they had! Oops!

Next dilemma, we had not been able to print out our boarding passes before hand for this leg of the trip and there was no one at the check in counter at Gate 8. Thankfully, the custoner service desk was not to far away, and the gal printed them out for us there. Unfortunately, because we were the last to check in we could not sit together. I got to sit in front of Amanda, and Connie was about 5 seats over from me. Connie said first class would be okay, but the lady at the counter only smiled and kept typing. =0) You take what you can get.

The trip was rather uneventful, some turbulence along the way (pothole in the sky) and a gorgeous sunset in London. Because of the fog the whole sky was shades of oranges and reds and pinks. Once we were above the clouds you could see it for miles and miles. We chased the sunrise most of the way home and almost caught it once. That would have been an unusual day...2 sunrises on the same day with a sunset in the middle.

Anyway, glad to be home. Now starts the clean up process...laundry, sorting souveniers, putting away suitcases, and returning to life as usual around here.
Love,
Eryn