A very long day
I thought getting up at 4:30 would be hard - it wasn't. I woke up at 3 am and had time to read a story, check my e-mails, do the dishes, have breakfast and double-check my carry on bag.
We left at 5:15, ontuesday morning. Check in went pretty smooth until the flight attendant messed up my name. She wrote "Christian Beck" on my tickets and had to change it. I would have been a bit concerned if this hadm't happened, 'cause there's allway trouble...
For our flight to Heathrow we had a window seat behind the wing on the right side. The flight was nice, took about 2 1/2 hours . We got breakfast on the plane - hot cheese sandwiches (Christian had ham and cheese), some fruit salad and lemon muffins. Who ever said that food on airplanes wasn't good??
We had to get from terminal 4 to terminal 3 in heathrow, the transfer was surprisingly short. We found someone from American Airlines to change the name on my boarding pass (the lady from british didn't get into their computer systhem) and we didn't notice that he put us in two different rows. I tried to switch places on the plane, but the lady I changed with wasn't happy about it. She did it anyway ;-)
Thanx again, wherever you are :-)
We had some time to freshen up at heathrow. I tried to find a small souvenier for my mom, but I didn't find anything. I'll give her the shortbread fom the plane. She'll like it.
We saw Shrek 2 and Mean Girls on our 7:30 flight to New York. Chris had Chicken, I had Pasta (both far from excellent), but I got the better dessert. Instead of chocolate pudding cake loaded with calories, I had a small cake made rom nuts and dried fruit. (Second meal was delicious cheese pizza with grapes)
In NY we had to go through immigration and re-check our bags after customs, but we still had three hours to kill. I managed to put my legs up and Christian listened to the radio.
We did have seats together on the next flight and the guy who sat in the same row got an emergency call and decidet to sta in new York, so we had the whole row and where able to stretch our legs. The in flight movie was - you guessed it - Shrek 2. I had some Vegan rice and veggies and some cantaloupe or dessert, Christian had spinache and cheese pasta and some cake.
We arrived after 6:10 hours, but since we already did the immigration stuff in NY, luggage pick up was fast and the shuttle got us to the hotel.
We found a small convenient store and bought some water. I got to shower first - so I got all the cold water. I took an icy shower (wasn't bad but...) and Christian got all the warm water - it finally warmed up after my shower. Then we fell asleep for 6 hours. At home, it's 9 in the morning on the next day.
Its weird beeing back. The door open in the wong directions, doorhandles turn the wrong way - its the little things that make the difference