What an amazing Christmas vacation!!!
6 suitcases and 6 carry-ons crammed into the SUV, no traffic, no lines, no problems...checked in and sipping my final Gingerbread Latte in only 15 minutes!!! We had a fabulous layover in DFW with lunch at Bennigans, a nap and free Wi-Fi.
London never seems to welcome our family very well!!! Our 2 hour layover quickly became stressful when the plane was a bit late, it took 45 minutes to disembark, a bus ride to the terminal, went through Passport Control, surrendered our “oversized” carry-on, showed our passports again, security check {removing shoes, coats, belts, laptops, tablets and then gathering it all up seconds later is so not fun when you are rushed, sleep deprived and starving!}, had our handbags searched, barely reached our Gate for the last call, showed our passports AGAIN and then got back on the same bus with the same bus driver to board our final plane home!!!
We arrived at LED minus 3 suitcases!!! It took Keith AND I an hour and half to complete all of the paperwork for our missing luggage {What other country makes you fill out a form~front and back~4 times, but if you make one error...you have to redo all the copies from the beginning? They seriously need to invest in white out!!!}...I made 2 mistakes and Keith 1 totaling 38 pages to report 3 pieces of missing luggage.
We were so grateful the our dear friend Masha met us at the airport and we had a few minutes to catch-up before our teammates picked us up from the airport and took us to dinner. I just gave the kids Melatonin...hopefully soon we will all be sound asleep!!!
So glad to be home!!!
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