On the way to Exeter...

After school ended on Wednesday, I loaded up and headed home to get Remus. Naturally, as soon as I made it to turn left onto 83, I remembered I left my iPad at school. A "quick" 20 minute trip there and back and I headed home as originally planned. Andrew met me there and taxied Remus to the kennel and me to the Chows. I was there a good hour earlier than I needed to be. We were aiming to leave at 5:30, but we then found out our flight from Harrisburg to Dulles had been delayed so significantly that we would miss our connecting flight to Heathrow. So, we very quickly loaded the kids and luggage into the car and drove to Dulles. Fortunately, we did not hit traffic and made it with enough time to check in and go through security. It's a good thing we have Global Entry status, or we would not have made it. Boarded the plane, aaaaand say on the runway for an hour and forty minutes waiting for a severe thunderstorm to pass. Finally we got up in the air. Not too much sleep for me...about seven hours later we landed at Heathrow (10:40 am in the UK, 5:40 am in PA). Global entry allowed us to fly through customs and we headed to get our rental car. A little over an hour later, we had it. We stopped for some lunch:

 Then came the best (sarcasm) part of the day: sitting in the mid-back of a mini van and driving for 5+ hours in a manual van on backwards streets. My head is still kind of spinning. Our route from Heathrow to Exeter took us past  Highclere Castle and Stonehenge. We went to the castle first (closed to the public till July), then we went to Stonehenge (by appointment only). I think we are making an appointment for another day though :)

Around 6:40 we finally made it to our beautiful hotel in Exeter (pictures to come!). Even just briefly walking around the town has convinced me that the travel troubles were worth it. When i get home, I'll have to edit the positioning of the pictures in these posts; the blogger app is a little less flexible. Cheers!