Ed’s flight to Denver was at 11:30am so we got up at 7:45 even though Dad and I didn’t fly out until 4:20. We decided we would rather drive down in the rental car than drag our suitcases to the bus in probably rain later. A bittersweet goodbye to Barb.
No traffic or problems on the drive to Heathrow until just outside the rental car place where there was a serious accident that had closed the road. Ed was able to duck into Hertz though.
Dad and I had a long wait at the airport but eventually we finally boarded for Pittsburgh. I’m on the plane now over Nova Scotia I think with about an hour and a half to go.
Post-script 2021: What a great trip this was. Ed and I had been talking about going to England for awhile and he really wanted to go that September. With it being Dad and Barb’s 75th and 80th birthdays, I really wanted him to come with us and am so glad he agreed and Linda could join us too. We had great weather, got to see all of the Jenkins’ and Davis’ including four new kids and four new spouses. Ed got to go to a Premier League game. Dad and I got to go to Last Night at the Proms on his actual birthday. We stayed in a house that generations of our family knew well, across the street from the church where they are buried. Ed and I stayed on a houseboat right in London!
Little did we know at the time that we were getting this trip just under the wire before a pandemic. Six months later international travel was shut down and now two years later we are still dealing with this mess. All of us now marvel that we were able to just travel freely from all over to get together without a care in the world in September 2019.
Sometimes perfect storms work out.