Home at Last

Currently at home in Huntsville, AL

This is the closing blog, our trip is at an end and we are safely at home, tired but we had a great time. This final blog covers the time period from Thursday evening, 29 May until are arrival at home 31 May about 1000.
Dinner at "The Crypt" in Chester, we leave for the airport at 0530 next morning. Folks told us the food in England was not good and you will be in McDonalds before you know it. We resisted, never did go to McDonalds and while the food was kinda bland it was pretty good and the portions were large. Chips (fries ) and green peas with every evening meal nothing else green.
The crypt had bodies at one time but now there are no dead ones.
We had a time finding the rental car turn in but alls well that ends well. Tommy was the lucky one, seems he has a dishonest face ( or something) every checkpoint we went through at the airport Tommy was pulled aside and searched, pretty soon when he saw someone in uniform he just started taking his clothes off. Flight from Manchester departed on time and we arrived in Chicago about 1:30 PM, customs did not take long, because we didn't have anything to declare ( no room to bring home gifts), picked up our bags and went to the gate to catch our flight to Huntsville. The flight was delayed fron 4:30 to 5:00 then to 5:45 them 6:00 then 6:15 then surprise / surprise the flight was cancelled (bad weather). A short time later we found our way
to the bus pickup point, without any luggage, and having been awake 22 hours.
So we made our way to the Crown Plaza for a short night's rest, new departure 07:10 Sat morning. Our room came with ear plugs (really) because we were so near the active runways and Chicago is busy all night, but we were tired and got some sleep anyway. Sat morning at 04:30 the buzzer went off and we were up and ready, bright eyed and bushy tailed, ready for the final leg of our journey. Got to the airport and through security without any trouble, then some unsuspecting lady ask about our trip and Tommy grabbed her, sat her down, I got the laptop out, and for the next hour we held her hostage and showed our pictures, all talking at once, telling about different parts of the trip we had enjoyed , the poor lady keep saying something about having a weak heart and did not need such excitement but we plowed on, she was only saved by the flight being called. So let this be a warning to everyone, we are armed with lots of lies and several thousand slightly out of focus pictures, so mention the trip at your own peril.
Home again waiting for our ride to the house.

Thanks to Ella for providing transportation to and from the airport. What are friends for, if you can't take advantage of them ever so often.
Thanks to Brooks and Leigh for showing me how to blog and ensuring me that any idiot could do it (they were right).
Thanks to Tommy and Susie for keeping their cool and being such great travel companions, we are still speaking,(I think)