London to Seattle

Our day started with breakfast and breakage - while (or, as the English would say, whilst) putting a small drinking glass in the dishwasher, it slipped from my hand and landed on the tile floor and shattered into a thousand pieces all over the small kitchen. What a mess! So we spent the next 15 minutes getting that all cleaned up. Amazing how many places it went!

We finally got to breakfast and to packing. The packing got done, some thank-you notes were written, and I went out to post the cards while Larry did the hand dishes. When I came back, I heard a cry from the kitchen. Larry had broken an egg cup whilst doing the dishes! No bleeding, but a knuckle cut. We put a band-aid (plaster) on it, and got on with our departure preparations!

About a half hour before the car to the airport arrived, there was a knock on our door and our landlord (lives in the flat above) came and introduced himself. (He had been gone for several days, and the flat arrangements are through an agency.) His name is Charles Bingham, and we are very glad we met him. A very nice man. We told him about the breakage, and besides it being no problem at all (we assumed that to be the case), when we showed him which glass broke he told us they had been his grandmother's martini (make that gin and it) glasses! She must have liked her gin! The glasses aren't that small!

The driver took a lovely back route to Heathrow, so we were able to enjoy some more of London streets on a beautiful day. Now we are awaiting our flight. We have had an amazing and wonderful trip, and at the same time it will be very good to be home.

There will be more blog posts in the next few days - lessons learned, travel tips, some more pictures, and books. Stay tuned!