13 Hours!

13 hours in a flying rock-crusher with endless movies, snacks and games of Solitare- what more could you ask? Well- a smoother beginning could have made it a bit easier. Just as we got in line to check in at SeaTac, Jan says, "I forgot my passport!" Holy #**#!*!! Barb grabbed her cell phone and called Becky, who had kindly driven us to the airport and just pulled away to go home. "Could you please blast back over to the airport and take Jan home to Mercer Island to get her passport and then return her forgetful butt to the airport in time to not miss any of the numerous security checks they are so fond of these days. Mission accomplished! Thankyou Becky aka Wonder Woman! Seat-back movie screens are an interesting experience- little tiny movies! I watched The Kings Speech and The Black Swan. Our 2 hour lay-over in Amsterdam brought a long-distance march from one end of the place to the other with a stop half-way to take pictures with wooden shoes and Dutch lace hats and the opportunity to amuse the crowd with our posing. Once we arrived in England we went thru our first customs line- oh boy, paper work! They sure keep close track of all us aliens here. Our last adventure of the day was to locate bus passes. We hadn't realized that anything more than a single day pass requires a color passport sized photo. By chance 2 of the 3 of us had an extra passport photo to donate to the cause- so Barb is riding on consecutive single day passes. Variety is the spice of life!