And we're in!

Made it!

With no help from Heathrow I might add. As with any long trip you want things to be uneventful until you arrive at your destination then the exciting stuff can start. And up until we landed in Heathrow that’s exactly what we got. Heathrow is humongous, and for it’s size and the area we came in, it was surprisingly short on signage. The big problem was our connection was tight and we seemed to have to go through security again. All fine and well, it just so turns out the security at Heathrow is some of the most thorough folks ever. I, wanting to speed things up I make certain that all my pockets are empty so I’m not going to sound the alarm.

Wrong.

I set off the alarm and honestly the only thing it could have been was my underwire…I certainly do have a lot. Did I mention security was thorough? Well the old wave the metal detector wand was not going to do it for me. Instead, this very nice woman gave me a complete head to toe pat…and when I say pat I mean literally her hands were on every spot on my person but the tippy top of my head. That is a hell of a welcome to Europe Rasa.

So I said we were cutting it close, well bags didn’t make it. We have them now so that’s all happy but we had to hang in travel clothes about 4 hours longer than anticipated. However, we are in the safest, cutest area of Paris. Lunch was a fortune but I found a wine store with cheap wine……you can guess where that’ll lead this week.

Mom is over the moon, Aimee and I are still tired but tomorrow we ride a segway for 3 hours…no doubt that will be interesting.