Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania,
United States
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Today we are going home! We woke up, checked out, and then caught another bus (tube strike is still not over) to the station where we caught the Gatwick Express train to the airport. We considered taking one of the van shuttles to the airport from our hotel but later learned it was not worthwhile because all they do is take you to the train anyhow and it takes hours for them to do all the local hotel pickups. Once at the airport we needed to make sure that our luggage only got checked through as far as Philadelphia- although we had purchased a round trip ticked to London from Buffalo via Philadelphia we intended to go straight from Philly to New York City (after an overnight stay at Aunt Buffy's in NJ)to meet our movers. Turns out the airlines do not approve of skipping one leg of your flight because it would have been much more expensive for us to buy two one way tickets starting in Buffalo and ending in Philly. I thought his was stupid. The lady at check in informed us that she would pretend not to know that we intended to end in Philly and it did not matter because we would have to pick up our luggage in Philly to go through customs anyhow. So, all went smoothly at the airport and we were off before we knew it and back in the US on the same day! (Time change)
Well, it's been fun- time to take the train into NYC and meet our movers and all of our stuff at our new apartment in Manhattan-Ciao!
