Saturday 20th August, we got up, packed all our bags into a taxi and Aunty Gilly's little car and headed to the airport to get our flight home to the US.
We had 7 HUGE bags, all overweight and we still had things that needed a bag to go in! Our hand baggage was overweight too!
Check-in was fun, to say the least! We had all our bags on 3 baggage trollies as well as Kayle in her push chair and her car seat hanging on the back! We changed check-in agents twice and so I had to explain everything 3 times. We were very lucky that our last agent got so overwhelmed by the baggage that she totally forgot to check the weight of our hand baggage and so we got away with having 3 times as much stuff in each bag!
Once we dropped all our bags off at the right places and paid our baggage fees, we headed through security. Got to LOVE Heathrow... they have a designated 'Family Lane' with dinosaur foot prints on the floor, pictures on the walls and a rainbow on the security metal detector! Kayle had fun following the foot prints and it certainly took the stress out of security!
Kayle got given a bag of goodies before we got on the flight. (Thank goodness, it kept her occupied while we were waiting to board!)
The flight home was good. I had a seat in Business Class (Oh Yeah!!) and Jason and Kayle had seats in Economy. We kept the separate seats, so that we would get some 'down-time' and were able to watch a film. Jason took the first leg because we had to be in our seats for Take-Off, and I went back to sit with Kayle once we had eaten and watched my film. Kayle slept for the first 2 hours of the flight and actually did really well with sitting still and watching the Interactive books and cartoons.
Once we landed, we found Jason's Mum, Sue, we loaded up the car and went to Cheesecake Factory for some yummy dinner. Our sweet girl was so tired, she fell asleep on my lap while we were waiting for our table and then slept through most of dinner. Jason and I enjoyed having endless refills on our coke!
We will be going to Jason's parents house for a few weeks while Jason works, then we will be heading back North to Seattle!
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