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Our Last Day in England

Wednesday 01/02/2019
Our Last Day in England

Our last day in England started very well with an English breakfast in the downstairs restaurant at the Broome Park Hotel underneath a huge chandelier and windows looking out over rolling pastures behind the house. We enjoyed our food, coffee and juice and reluctantly waited for our taxi driver to arrive.

The ride to Heathrow was easy. Check-in was just as easy other than the problem where I could not check-in Momma using the kiosk due to her name on her passport versus the airline ticket. Security was easy for all of us except for Kayla. She got held up going through inspection because she had who knows what all so they had to manually inspect her bag. It did not take too long and it was okay because we had plenty of time before our flight.

We ate at a restaurant not too far after security and then walked through Tiffany's and on to our gate. It wasn't too much of a wait before we loaded the plane. We had all four seats in the middle - Momma, me, Kayla, Troy. We watched probably three movies apiece coming back. Troy watched one comedy and laughed out loud the entire movie. I started "Mission Impossible - Fallout" again just to see our hotel in the movie and we also saw the nightclub we went to on the first night in Paris. Pretty cool.

Back in Atlanta, customs went smoothly; made it back to international parking and reloaded Kayla's Jeep (although that was a bit of an effort) and Troy drove us back. There was a lot of misunderstanding about who was meeting who where. April said it was raining so hard that she could not get her SUV across the muddy roads so she was not going to be able to meet us. After a couple of heartfelt calls, she and Troy had straitened out their misunderstanding and she met us at Kayla's with Tucker.

Troy and I stayed at Momma's that night. The next morning, I headed back to Perdido Key and Troy headed off to Mississippi with Tucker. Our Europe trip was over. We all had a terrific time in England and France and all of us shared experiences that were new to all of us. The Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, Eurostar, the Louvre, sleeping on the Seine, Breakfast on the Seine, escargot, walking across Tower Bridge, our night in a haunted English manor house - these all made a trip that none of us will soon forget (and we've got this blog for when our memories do start to fade). Special thanks to Howard for meeting us in London, Milan and Christina for welcoming us to their New Years Eve Party and apologies to Howard and Lesley for not making their NYE Party. Cheers, everyone; and happy new year! We wish you all the very best for 2019!

Where will we be going for our 2019/2020 European Vacation? We are already thinking about our options and welcome any suggestions. Post your suggestions as a comment below. Thanks!






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