Home bound

It’s been a great trip, but ready to be home. We met out transport for the airport at 4:45 this morning and had an uneventful trip and checked our bags before finding the lounge to wait for our first flight to London. Unfortunately when we got there, we found out that our connection was already delayed an hour, turning our 5 hour layover into 6.  Fortunately they too had a lounge that was well stocked and was right around the corner from the Harry Potter store and other shops, so Megan and I had a little retail therapy while we waited.

The flight home was good, they made up a little time in the air and we landed only at 7:00 pm Houston time instead of the 6:30 originally scheduled. We gathered our baggage and headed home. Boy are we tired!!!

Stockholm Sweden

Our final stop on the cruise was in Stockholm. We didn’t have breakfast delivered this morning so we packed up everything that we didn’t put out the night before and headed up to the dining room one last time. After breakfast, we had a little time to kill before our assigned time to depart so we walked around the ship one last time. They were actively getting ready for the next guests.  One we deboarded, we met our last tour bus for a 4 hour tour through Stockholm with a stop at the Vasa museum. It was fascinating!  This ship sank on its maiden voyage and they were finally able to find it and raise it 333 years later. They pieced it back together and preserved it.

After our tour, we were dropped off at our hotel, where our room wasn’t ready yet, so we left our bags and headed to the Hard Rock Cafe, which was 1.5+ mile walk each way. We saw a festival being held in the park on the way. Once there and back, we were all exhausted and knowing we had a 3am wake up call the next morning, turned in very early. Tomorrow we fly home!  It doesn’t get truly dark here. At 3am, it’s still pretty light-view from our hotel room.