UK, arriving in London and Departing from Dublin

The day we left!!!! Yeah!

I went to Sunday School in the morning, but skipped the church service. I had been scheduled for the nursery, but when Narsima and Kristina heard that I was leaving for England that day, they decided it was unreasonable to expect me to be able to work in the nursery, so they stayed in there, and I was about to go home when a Sunday School teacher asked me to do something (now I  can't remember what it was), so I ended up staying for Sunday School - but I couldn't bear the thought of sitting through a sermon, so I came home and did the last minute packing. I was all finished by 10:30 am. Kim and I had planned to leave Iowa City at noon, so I passed some time on the computer, but around 11:30, I just gave up and called her to see if I could come over.

The trip did not start well. She was not ready to leave until close to 1pm. I was patient until about 12:30, and then I started harassing her. We drove to Davenport, IA where my friend Dave lives. Davenport is 45 minutes away from Iowa City, and on the way to Chicago. Dave had agreed to drive us to Chicago, take my car back to his house, and then drive it to Chicago to meet us when our trip was over. We got just outside of Davenport, and Kim remembered that she left her Britrail pass and other stuff (about $800 of prepaid vouchers) in Iowa City. I couldn't believe it. I was feeling rather unmerciful and on the brink of telling her that I was going to continue to go to Chicago, and she'd have to figure out what she was going to do on her own. She called her ex-husband who lives next door to her, and was watching her trailer/cats while she was gone. When he found out what was happening, he grabbed everything and came to Davenport. He must have driven really fast. By the time we found Dave's house and did a small tour of it (this is a new house that he bought a year ago, and I had not seen it yet), Duane was already in Davenport. We met him at a restaurant parking lot and got the passess from him.

Besides the length, the flight was uneventful. We had one lay-over in Dublin, Ireland, and then had a 45 minute flight to London. Everyone seems surprised that there was a nonstop flight from Chicago to Dublin. There were nonstop flights from Chicago to London, we just didn't get on them, I can't remember why, maybe they were all full - I'm not sure.