Smith Family Road Trip

On Friday April 15 2011 our small family will be leaving the emerging British spring and will be setting off on an adventure...our flights are booked to and from the US, each step along the way has been meticulously planned...and yet our journey has not begun...

Sunday 20 January 2013

Another airport, another beer...

A six+ hour flight delay turned our day flight into a night flight and whilst the boys were beautifully behaved throughout, 8 hours in an airport terminal waiting to get on a plane followed by a 9 hour flight takes its toll on the most patient person!

Still, we arrived at Sanford Airport, cleared immigration (after being called into the interview room for clearance) and customs (all our bags were scanned for contraband goods!) and bagged ourselves a lovely new people carrier to take us to Nanny's Villa...

As we drove down south we joked that it was a miracle that we had managed to get all 6 of us and all our bags door to door....uh oh....yep, you guessed it, we had forgotten to claim one of our bags and we didn't realise until we were 40 minutes away from the airport and it was 1am. We would worry about it in the morning.

Morning came (far too quickly) and our first Denny's breakfast had a true American flourish with 'Luna the Balloon Lady' making Benjamin a Spider-Man balloon as he ate his toast.

One trip to Walmart for supplies later and Ken and I left the kids with the oldies (!) and headed back to Sanford...to find the international terminal deserted!!! And so we wait, again, with a beer in hand (a fiver for a small cup anyone?) for the terminal to open for a 4:50pm flight later.

Ever felt like someone somewhere has a grudge against you...? Good job we glide through all the mess with a smile on our faces, after all, we could be back home in cold, snowy England :)









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