Well we arrived on Sunday morning. It was such a crazy emotional week I can hardly believe it even happened. My son had his last day of school on Thursday, June 9th and then the container was picked up on Friday morning and we handed over the keys to our house Friday afternoon. We spent the night in a hotel because we were supposed to leave at 6:00 am Saturday morning. We arrived at the airport at 4:30am with two cranky children 8 pieces of luggage and my husband and I had not slept literally for 48 hours to be told that our flight no longer existed even though I had confirmed it at 2:00am that morning. So they wanted to send us on to Tornonto where we would have a 9 hour layover....but they would compensate us with food vouchers...right! So we finally worked it all out that we would take a later flight and spend our time in Cleveland and throw ourselves on the mercy of the hotel we just left. Thankfully we were able to come back and spend our delay in a room. BUT we had checked our bags through and had no toiletries, toothbrushes etc. I was a wreck. To make it even better when we got to the hotel we were told that there was a vampire convention being held in the hotel....YOU"VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME is all I could think. Well you could definitely tell the people that were with the convention and the people who weren't. The two "groups" basically talked to there own but after being up for 48 hours, having a 9 hour delay, entertaining 2 children and dealing with my weak emotional state I guess I looked sooooo bad that the vampires began chatting to me because if I look ed like death warmed over then I must be part of the convention!
Thank goodness customs and immigration were a breeze because I would have broken down right there and then! Well we are here. I am looking forward to what lies ahead but also wondering if I was crazy to put myself and family through all of this. It has to get better....cause it can't get much worse. Tomorrow I am booking my B8B reseravation (if I can find one) for July 5th....I think I will need to hear an American accent by then!
Thanks for letting me ramble!
Kathy
