Day #2 = June 18, 2022 - Traveling Part 2

 

We have arrived at London Heathrow airport LHR at 11:15 AM local time on Saturday 6/18/22. 



It is now 3:13 AM back in Los Angeles!






So we had to go through London Heathrow airport security when we arrived. Since Mom and Bud had taken a different route, Audra and I had their carryon baggage to lighten their load. 

Well, when we got to the screening area, we were told to remove certain liquids and medicines and place them into plastic bags. Well, that was awkward since Audra and I had NO IDEA what Mom and Bud had in their carry on bags!

We did our best but it was not good enough. Bud's bag was stopped for extra screening and the security officials required me to throw away these two products from Bud's bag:




Several of the kids also had to go through th eextra screening and their bags were opened and examined. I took photos of all this chaos. However, a security official came to me and required that I delete the photos AND delete the deleted photos as well! London takes their security very seriously. 
 
Our original connection flight to Glasgow had us having a two hour layover. However, British Airways cancelled that flight a few weeks ago and we had no choice but to wait five hours for our next flight.  

Well, we got more bad news. Our five hour layover just became a SEVEN hour layover. We are all toast now!







We finally get to board our plane to Glasgow!



We look happy on the outside but inside we are all ZOMBIES!

We are getting closer!








We finally arrive in Glasgow Scotland at 8:15 PM local time (20:15 as we now need to use military time for everything!)




So now we have just a few bags to transport to the house:




So we get to the rental car counter (the guy had to work late and wait for us) and when I told him we had eight persons and 16 pieces of luggage he said NO WAY will the 7 passenger vehicle work for us and we needed a 9 passenger vehicle! So he did not charge us extra and this is what we got:


We arrived at the Dullatur House around 9:30 PM local time which would be 1:30 PM local time in Los Angeles. Total travel time from Pinelake house to Dullatur House was approximately 25 hours!



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