Flights to Ireland

We were up way too early this morning. We were awake at just after 3:00 am. The airport is about 45 minutes from town so we needed to allow time to drive there and be there two hours before our flight. The flight was perfectly on time, and we even arrived early in Heathrow.
It was a long flight – about ten hours. We each watched two or three movies on our personal video screens. Funny to think back to times when they had one movie that was played for everyone and when we all clapped for landings.

Poor Roya had some hot curry spilled on her at lunch. Her hand is a bit red, but not blistered so I think she’ll be fine. The upside is that the stewardess was so sorry that she was willing to give us a little tour of the plane once we landed. We were in the last row so we had to wait for the other passengers to empty out anyway. We got to go upstairs and see the flight deck. The girls thought the business class seats that recline into beds were pretty cool too. We didn’t see first class, but it must be something else if business class was so swanky!

Heathrow airport is huge. We took a subway from the arrival gate to the customs and baggage claim area. Then we had to switch terminals by taking another subway line.

After a long wait for our connecting flight, we made it safely to Ireland where we met Elizabeth. I think we had her worried because we were the last off the plane and our bags were the last to come out. None the less we have arrived and are very happy to be in Ireland with family at last.

CM