On our way.....take 2!

So, after much to do, we are back on our way to the UK.  As you will have seen, dear reader, due to weather in Chicago, our 6.50am outbound flight from Cinty was cancelled this morning.  We were told that all the airlines had cancelled their flights, and so we couldn't even been booked onto another airline to make our 9.30am daylight flight to the UK.  Ok, we said, and waited to be re-booked.  A few taps of the keyboard and we were booked onto a flight leaving Cinty at 3pm this afty, and then an overnight flight to London (booo...)

We thought "how nice they are all being".  Then as we moved to one side, another group of passengers moved up and went through the same process.  Except the check-in lady told them that she could get them on the United Airlines flight to Chicago at 7.56am!  A quick process and karma check told us to leave it, rather than haul the lying witch across the counter and ask her why she had told us there were no United flights.  So we skulked off back home for an extra few hours of kip seeing as we had only slept for four hours the night before.

Karma paid off.  I managed to cancel our UK "non-cancellable" reservation at the hotel in Birmingham for this evening and get a refund, and I managed to rebook our car rental with Budget instead of Hertz, reducing that cost by 40 pounds too.  So, despite the pleasure it would have given us to rip the check-in ladies head off, we made out okay in the end.  Now we are back in the airport and getting ready to head through security on step 1.  Lets hope that the weather fairy plays ball when we get to Chicago for our next leg.

So now we will be landing in England tomorrow morning at 6.50am.  We will have to drive straight to the Lake District as we have a meeting at the Winder Hall at 2pm!  Nothing like jet lag and meetings!  Oh well, we are thrilled to be on our way at last (hopefully!)  I'll post more when we get to Chicago!

Big love to all,

D&J