Ok, I have some catching up to do, I know! First the flight went well. My mom and William and I did get the perfect seats we wanted by using seatguru.com to scope out the layout of the plane ahead of time, and then reserved the seats the minute it opened up on the net. Of course that didn't prevent us from being seated in close proximity to the family travelling with a 4 year old, a toddler and a baby in arms. You cannot win them all. The baby slept through almost the whole flight, but the toddler made up for it. Everyone was actually pretty cool about it and the parents kept giving us grateful looks whenever we shot them a sympathetic smile or picked up the blankie from the aisle instead of giving them the evil eye every five minutes.
William finally realized his previously unmet holiday goal of watching 'Marley and Me' (AND ON A PLANE!FLYING OVER THE OCEAN!) and I flipped around the movies and messed with my iPod and read my ChickLit light novel bought just for the occasion. None of us really slept, but it went ok.
Customs was pretty good too- considering the enormous amount of people they move through there, they really were very efficent and pleasant and even though we all felt ( and I am sure, looked) hung over, we got out, got our luggage and found our driver very quickly.
This is a huge perk of traveling with mom. I would have just caught the new express train into London, but mom felt ( rightly) that we would all be too tired to schlep luggage on the train and got a car to come and get us instead. William fell completely asleep in the car and we were not much better. The rental agents for the flat were lovely and told us it was being cleaned immediately ( some other Americans were decamping from it even as we piled up our luggage in the lobby and William went to sleep on my messenger bag like a drowning man clinging to a life raft) and they took pity on us and whisked us in early as the cleaning lady was still vaccuming. William sleep-walked out of the lift and down the hall and onto a sofa and didn't move for about 3 hours.
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