Home sweet home....with a little drama attached!!

There is always drama with the Jenkins travelers, right?? We stayed at my sister-n-law's for a few reasons Tuesday. One, my father-n-law was having surgery on his knee, so we were out of the way, and 2, we could take the tube from Sarah's straight to Heathrow airport. No changing from the train to the tube and then changing lines on the tube again with 3 kids and 5 suitcases. Once we got on the line at Sarah's it was an hour straight shot.

Is anything ever that easy with us???

We pull up to the tube station, everyone hops out. Thanks to Steve (Andy's brother) who came over to help out with his car. We head in, only to be told that the station and trains have closed. There was a robbery and they were chasing the criminals down the train line. YUP! nice. They then proceeded to tell us which station to go to next. We piled everyone in the car to drive to that station about 15 minutes away. Wouldn't you know it....."we have now closed this station".... Ok, one more try to another station. We get there....."a train has broken down. No activity at this station". You have got to be kidding me. It was then that Sarah and Steve offered to just drive us. Over here, that isn't a big deal, but the traffic over there is just awful to the airport most times. Thank you Lord for clearing our way. After over an hour of trying to get on the tube, we had clear sailing to the airport. Thank you also Sarah and Steven for taking an afternoon out to run us around.

The journey continues.......

We get to the airport, still in time. We go to do our computer check in only for the computer to tell us that they can't check us in, we need to see an attendant. Great!! We head over and hand the gentleman the print out that we were printed. He picks up a phone and makes a call to then tell us that the flight is overbooked. (Ok, not really our problem) He will see what he can do. Are you ready for this???? We ended up getting upgraded!! WHOO HOO!!! All 5 of us in the bulk head seating of World Traveler. (not first class where some sit backwards. I wouldn't feel right doing that with kids anyway. It was the one between first class and economy) What a difference it made for us!!! Although no one slept, I have never been more comfortable on a flight! Leg room, air hostesses that don't leave you alone. It is going to be hard going back to economy after that:0) We did hit quite a bit of yucky weather, so the flight took almost 9 hours, but we landed safe and sound!! Thanks to mom who picked us up at the airport. Liam did the same thing to her that he did to Gareth. Kinda gave her the cold shoulder, but I am sure that today, he will warm up:0) All of the kids fell asleep on the way home. Considering it was 3 in the morning according to their body clocks, I can't believe they lasted that long.

We are all up now, bright and early. We are headed to Chick-fil-a for breakfast and then over to get Charlie!! We have all missed that little dog!! All in all, great trip!!! We had a great time!! Now, unpacking and back to reality:0)