Friday, May 24, 2013

May 23rd 2013: The journey begins

Well here we are in sunny Carlsbad, and it really is sunny! The first flight was OK, watched a couple of movies, had a couple of meals and had a quick nap so the 8 hours went pretty quickly. And so to Philadelphia airport. Not a great deal of seating and not good coffee bar facilities but found two white rocking chairs beside the shopping mall where we played spot the fury animal in rucksacks or under arms - we saw various bears, Piglet, rabbits and lions and needless to say J won! The fire alarm went off and everyone was told to vacate the building but everyone, including us,  totally ignored it and carried on.

The next flight was 5 hours and pretty grim. No media or screen and no food but time passed eventually and we arrived just after 8 pm and Ben was there to meet us at baggage reclaim. We were whisked away to Carlsbad where we met up with Madeline and had a lovely evening together before bed at around 10.30 ish. A beautiful house, so light and spacious but only a week left there before the Dalziels join  the property ladder!  The only disappointment was that Sadie and Norah were in bed but tomorrow is another day.

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