Well, we’re finally making a trip back to the States. It will be for a month, while we visit family and friends and apply to jobs. We also got lucky because we purchased our tickets before airlines started charging for checked luggage, so we each got to bring two, 50 pound suitcases with us, stuffed full of things we didn’t need anymore in Scotland. So we can get a head start on moving back in August. Jonmikel packed up his main computer in a couple of boxes, and I stuffed all my winter things in my suitcases.
The trip went surprisingly smooth, partially because at the Edinburgh airport, you HAVE to talk to a person to check in. There are none of those obnoxious automated check in machines that do way more harm than good. I hate machines. So all of our stuff got in and out on time, we made it to Newark after watching several movies on our very own TV screens (I love 777s), notably The Other Boleyn Girl, which I didn’t think was all that bad, nor all that good.
We arrived in Newark just in time to get on the plane and sit for 3 hours on the tarmac. It was miserable. Storms were coming our way, so the airline determined that the best thing to do was let us sit on a plane. Great, huh? But they started handing out free booze, and a group of business travelers sitting in front of us and also heading to Charleston, WV very slowly got drunker and drunker and more entertaining, so it wasn’t a complete waste. They were awfully friendly and awfully lively. But we made it to Dan and Heather’s in one piece and with all of our luggage, if starving and exhausted.
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