Brian and I have officially arrived safely in Ireland, BUT we had a rough day today in the airport. It started when we stood in a very long queue to get our passports checked and check-in our bag at the London-Stanstead Airport (very common for flights over here so we need to get used to it)! Then we made it to the plane and chose our seats which happened to be next to a very nice nun. A crew member from the airline then came on board as everyone was finishing boarding to ask if anyone had dropped a Samsonite money wallet. I looked at my husband as he checked to make sure he was still carrying our's (which contained hundreds of Euros CASH), thinking that surely we hadn't lost it. Wouldn't you know, WE HAD!!! Brian had it hooked around his belt, and when he took off his belt for security, he didn't think about it. It must have gotten pretty far with us though because they knew it was someone on our flight - we had no identification whatsoever in the bag. All we could do to claim it was to say exactly how much money was in there. We were so relieved that they found it and got it back to us before our trip. The icing on the cake was when the nun next to us said, "It's a miracle!" =)
(As a side note to this story, Brian believes this was our good karma coming back to us. A few years ago when we were at Epcot, we found a $100 bill on the ground. We picked it up and turned it into a cast member. A lot of people told us we were crazy! Maybe this was our reward for not keeping the money back then...)
After the money fiasco, we were all flustered and Brian then forgot to put on his seat belt and had to be reminded by the flight attendant. Yeah, we were total rookies today... =)
After all of that, we arrived in the tiniest airport we have been to in Kerry, Ireland, where we had to wait FOREVER to get our rental car (OK, more like 30 minutes). We were officially the last ones in the airport. I may have thrown a little bit of a fit with the rental car guy, but in my defense, it had been quite a couple of hours and I was just ready to get in a car and get to our hotel. =) We have a silver Ford Focus again, just like we did when we first arrived in England. Now I just need to try not to hit anything like I did on our Scotland trip two weeks ago!
More to come on the rest of our trip later!
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