We awoke on Saturday feeling pretty down about coming home. We lay in bed and watched the Formula one qualifying, that will be an interesting thing to get used to, most races in the morning....We went and had breakfast, then came back and started packing. We checked out about 10 minutes before we had to, and went for some lunch followed by a drive around till we had to return the rental car.
We got to Greenville airport with plenty of time to spare for our flight to Atlanta. In fact we were the first ones there! At least Seb got a good run out whilst Paul, Oliver and Isaac played each other on iPods. We boarded the plane, no worries. Oliver decided he wanted to read his Lego book. He put it down after about 20 minutes and went very quiet. We landed at Atlanta, thank god we didn't have to get our bags. We headed straight for the international terminal, found our gate, then went to the Sky Club Lounge. There was only a selection of nibbly foods like apples, peanuts, biscuits, olives, cheeses. Not exactly a meal, but the boys munched out well. The boys were well behaved, despite it getting late. It was nice to watch the sun set whilst the planes took off. Very cool. They called our flight for boarding, so of we went.
We had our usual glass of champagne when we got on the plane and got settled. Oliver and Isaac both had an orange juice. The plane was 45 minutes late taking off due to one of the business class seats not functioning, and the engineers trying to fix it. If I had been in economy I would of been screwing, I was pretty annoyed, and I could see everything that was happening. During this time, Oliver decided to be VERY sick... He has had travel sickness before, on a boat and in a car, so just trains to do now.... It is the reading while travelling, I used to get it myself. The air hostesses helped us out as best they could, but they were obviously concerned. So concerned, that they went and told the Pilot, who came and spoke to us. He wasn't sure Oliver was fit to fly, but we reassured him he would be fine now, he just needed to sleep (it was 10.30 at night by now). He took us on our word, but was still worried and didn't want to have to divert the flight. Thing is, if the business class passenger hadn't complained about his seat, and insisted on them trying to repair it, Oliver would have been sick mid air! Not sure if it was a blessing or not....Isaac and Oliver were both asleep before we took off, Sebastian was a different matter. He feel asleep on me during take off, so we tried to transfer him to the seat next to me, but oh no, he woke up, and stayed awake for a good hour. We eventually got him to settle down, but he didn't sleep much. He woke up about 2 hours before we landed, so 4am US time, 9am UK time. The boys woke up gradually, but didn't eat much breakfast. Oliver didn't eat anything...
The plane touched down quite smoothly at 11.15am on the Sunday morning. We got through customs and immigration easily, picked up out bags and headed to the car. Everyone, other than Paul slept on the way home. I had to go to bed in the afternoon, I was so tired. The boys went to bed at 7.30, paul and I at 10.30.
We all awoke at midday the next day....
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