Welcome Home!!

7th/8th June

After saying Goodbye to Ruy and Karen we checked in for our flight to London.

Fortunately I looked at my phone when I was turning it off to see a text from Lara, Tones daughter. She was offering to collect us from the airport!! We had planned to take a coach down to Southampton but we were due to arrive at 4.40am so knew we would have to wait for some time.

I phoned Lara and in spite of the flight being much earlier than she had though she agreed to collect us.  She lives about 20 minutes from the airport!

You may remember many blogs ago I told you we had used Tesco air miles to pay for this flight!!

Tone said we would have to travel on the wing but of course this was not the case and we checked in and boarded on time to comfortable seats and a full plane. 

Tone went straight to sleep as he always does but I stayed awake long enough to have a red wine and to read a bit more of my book.

We slept really well considering and ours was the first plane to land at Heathrow on Saturday morning.  True to her word Lara was there as bright as a button in the early morning.

We arrived back at home at about 7.30 to a wonderful surprise.  Charlie, Miche, Ellie, Emily and Ed were at our house. There were balloons, banners welcoming us home and the delicious smells of a Full English breakfast coming from the kitchen.

Thanks to you all for such a wonderful homecoming.

I missed you all so much so seeing you so soon after we got home was very special. 

Cath called quite early as did Emma and Sally so we had a great day on our first day back.