I'm Back

I left Detroit on the 4 p.m. flight (9 p.m. GMT) and arrived in Amsterdam at 5:20 a.m. (4:20 GMT).  I tried to sleep on the flight but had little success.  The breakfast on the 'plane was not to my taste so the first thing I wanted to do was find food when I landed.  There was no gate number for my flight to Birmingham and a lot of flights were cancelled on the board but my numb brain didn't really care right then.  I found an open coffee shop (I think I was on one of the first flights of the day as the airport was still shut) and got a coffee and croissant.

After reading for a while I decided I had better find out what was going on with my flight so I went to the transfer desk and discovered my flight was cancelled due to fog and, at that point, they weren't sure there would be a flight that day.

I called Steve (forgetting the one hour difference!) as I didn't want him to have left to get me.  That cost an arm and a leg as I had to use my card.  Then I had to wait for my number to come up to organise a new flight.

Thankfully, I was able to get on a 10:15 flight. That meant I arrived at 10:30 but Steve didn't arrive till 11:30 as he knew it was an hour's flight but we both forgot the 1 hour difference.  

Rose was at home when we got back as school had asked for her to be collected as she wasn't feeling well.  I suspect it was because mummy was getting back.  She wanted to put her new pyjamas that I had bought for her on straight away.

She helped keep me awake till the other two got home.  Josh didn't really want to say hello all that much but when I showed him what I had got for him (lego) he was very excited. Naomi loved her pyjamas too.

I managed to stave off bed till 8, after a lovely bath.