Huffle's alarm went off at 5:30am and then mine went off shortly after. He wanted us to be out of the house by 6am and after a few opening and closing of bags and frantically searching for this, that and the other, we did actually manage to get out of the house by 5:50 (thats good for us). Our first stop was the farmhouse to drop the keys off. No-one was about so they just went through the letter box and away we went. Goodbye Leicestershire, we love you very much and we had a fabulous time.
It was a fairly uneventful journey (though I felt travel sick so just closed my eyes and snoozed on and off). The boys were fine (apart from Smallest needing a wee but that was inevitable). The hire car was dropped off with no incidents and we got a taxi very quickly. The taxi charged us over and above what he should have but we had no room to argue, plus he went very fast and possibly thought his vehicle was much smaller than it actually was! Huffle got our boarding passes and bag tags and off we went to drop the suitcases off. Again no incidents. Finally we found a place to have breakfast and relaxed. SIGH. Small chose a croissant and jam. Smallest had a childs Full English Breakfast and Huffle and I had toast. I had two coffees before I felt even remotely awake and we ordered more toast to feed me, Huffle and Small. We took our time and answered texts and emails and said our virtual goodbyes. Next we moved to the Departure Lounge which was very busy and very full. We only had just over an hour to spare so we read or played on the Ipads.
Once our gate was opened we walked a few miles and got on the plane. So far so good. Huffle had booked us seats in front of each other which was much easier for passing gadgets, headphones and sweets around. Huffle and Smallest sat together (ha ha, Smallest went to the toilet 50 times!) and Small and I sat together. My headphones wouldn't work so I had some AirCanada ones which were rubbish so Small lent me his to watch The Hunger Games2. I really enjoyed it. I played for a bit on Small's DS, drank lots of water and ate Minstrels. Smallest played on the IPad and DS and watched Thor2. Huffle listened to music through his new Blue Tooth headphones (thank you Grandma and Grandad) and Smallest watched, played, ate and went to the toilet.
As we started to descend we could see there was still a lot of snow about. BOOOOO. However, once we landed and got off and out of the airport, we noticed an awful lot had melted too.
Waiting for the taxi, Smallest's hair grew a strange extension!
Getting a taxi was interesting. Huffle had booked it via the company (or his secretary had) and he had to queue up in a very long queue so he could tell the man in the taxi booth he had pre-arranged a Taxi and then the booth man would page the taxi and he would come. Well that's all well and good if there isn't a huge queue and someone answering the pager. In the end Huffle just rang the taxi man and he came. He was an interesting driver. He drove fine on the Highway but as soon as he got off and was on the normal roads he slowed right down and kept taking his foot off the accelerator, not braking but it made for a jerky car ride all the way home. Not sure what that was all about! Anyway we got home. There was still a significant amout of snow, and we could tell it had snowed as the driveway was full of it, but there has also been quite a lot of meltage. Grandad Easter is poking his head out of the garden and there are tall plants poking through (no idea if they are still alive but I'm sure they are fine).
Inside there was a Pot of Tulips on the kitchen table welcoming us home from the Royals. Thats nice. The boys had a bit of tea and watched TV while Huffle and and I emptied the suitcases and put the first load of washing on.
We are all very very tired. At the time of writing this it should be 12:15 tomorrow but it is only 20:15 so we are not allowed to go to bed yet. However, we got very confused when looking at the times and clocks because apparently the clocks went forward while we were away. As if our body clocks weren't confused enough!
We had a fabulous time in England..............
......catching up with LOTS of people, including family, friends and a new baby.......
.....eating LOTS of lovely food, take away, home cooked and restaurants and cafes.....
Thank you to all who made that special effort to see us, fit us in, take us out, bring us food, take our food away and generally make us feel welcome.
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