Unfortunately, Sunday was our last day in Europe, although "day" is being generous. On a quick tangent, I am not sure I have shown an outside view of our house, so here it is:
Due to our flying rules, which were back in effect, we had multiple flights scheduled - Brian and Debbie were on an 11:20am flight to JFK, Amanda was on a 12:30pm flight to Vienna and Ethan and I were last at 2:20pm to JFK. All flights were on British Airways, with the NY-bound group flying in Premium Economy and Amanda in Business. Honestly, I didn't remember booking her in Business, but it worked out well since she left with Brian and Debbie and got there quite early but had access to the lounge.
We did our family hug, with some tears I might add, and the first group headed out. Ethan and I finished packing and cleaning up and headed over to the gourmet market for some Greek yogurt and, in the spirit of heading back to the US, grabbed Starbucks iced coffees. Meanwhile, at Heathrow Brian and Debbie had their own caffeine fix.
All of our flights were uneventful and we all arrived back in our respective homes, or temporary homes, safe and sound.
And since Debbie arrived home about 3 hours before I did, and I had the laptop with me so she could not start to catch up on More Than Paper work, she just HAD to take a walk to Starbucks for some coffee! Although at $5 a coffee she quickly realized that she would either have to quit the newly formed habit or we would have to buy a coffee maker.
The last blog post of a family trip is always where I get a little sentimental and wistful. This is no different. Our first road trip was in 2010, which was originally billed as Ethan's Bar Mitzvah Trip. But the fun of that trip made us realize that waiting for Brian's Bar Mitzvah Trip was too long and we made a bunch of trips from 2010-2018. Each one had its own set of memories that hopefully we will all cherish.
As you can see from the photo, lots has changed since 2010, and there's a fairly decent chance that this was the last trip with just the 5 of us. And if that's the case that is just fine with Debbie and me, because it simply means we will have new members of the family joining us. And then new memories will be made - and there will be more people to make fun of Debbie and me when we get lost or can't figure out how to use the freakin' Maps app.
CLO out, for now.
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