The Long Journey Home

We woke up at 6 am on Thursday to catch an early flight to London Heathrow airport and to begin our long journey back to Dallas. Since we were gaining back the time we lost on the trip to Nice, we were looking at a 31-hour day with much of that time spent on an airplane or in an airport.

We got to the Nice airport with plenty of time to spare so we ate breakfast and watched the sun rise over the runways.

In London, we had a 3-hour layover so we grabbed lunch at Friday’s and then walked through the airport shops. Heathrow has a plethora of shops and restaurants — it’s amazing. They have Chanel, Burberry, Harrod’s, Omega, Swarovski, duty-free shops, and electronics stores. It’s like a mini shopping mall.

The flight from London to Dallas was uneventful. It was 9 hours of napping, reading, and watching shows on the iPod. After landing, we went through passport control. The lines were long at least we were off the plane and back home.

By the time we got to the luggage area. All the bags were already on the carousel…or so we thought. We found two of our bags, but were missing the other two. With no more bags coming out, we went to file our “missing bag” claims.

I hate it when that happens.

As we finished filing our claims, one of the baggage handlers came up and said there were more bags still downstairs. They had experienced a jam and were working to get the bags up to the baggage claim area. Since we weren’t in a hurry, we waited around hoping our bags would make it up. Eventually, they did.

Delighted, we grabbed our bags, went through customs and then headed home.

First stop….Mom’s house for the dogs.

Second stop…Mexican food!!!

J’aime Tex Mex…it’s good to be home. 🙂