Good bye and a wish to return

The ship docked at 5 am but as we had a 3:30 flight we chose to be one of the last to leave the ship at 9:am. As we left our room it was amazing how many rooms were already clean and waiting for the new passengers to start arriving by 12 pm. 2500 off and another 2500 on, it is amazing how they do it so efficiently. We just carried off our own luggage and we were off in a very short time lined up in the taxi cue and soon headed to the airport. We were able to check our luggage right away so all we had was carry on luggage which had grown since the trip over. We took turns sitting and watching luggage while we walked around a bit. We were not too happy when we got on our flight as we had booked with British Airways and flew with them on the way to Barcelona and now we are on a small Iberia plane where the seating was so tiny , my legs were touching the seat ahead so Harvey and Don especially were very uncomfortable. The attendants ran down the aisle SELLING even water and no one bought anything. On arrival in London we got our luggage and took the shuttle to our hotel for the night. Not the greatest hotel but very cheap for London, quite noisy and we could not get cold water out of the taps but glad to be another step further to home. We walked a short distance to a English pub for supper. Everyone else had fish and chips but as I knew that Indian food as become the most common take out food in London now, I thought I would try chicken curry.....Ohhhh very spicy but quite good. I should of had the Fish and Chips.

Our flight home was at 12:30 but as we were up and ready we left for the airport early, checked our luggage and had breakfast in an Irish pub. It was not as good as it could be but after eating the best on the ship, we were spoiled. It was amazing how many were just sitting and drinking beer at 9 am.

We were glad to get on Air Canada flight for home and settled in to watch a couple of movies. There have lots of new movies as well as older ones to choose from and it certainly puts in the hours. I was sitting next to a fellow from Glasgow, Scotland and we chatted quite a bit too.

We had a 5.5 hour wait in Toronto, we sat at a table and played cards and a game and headed through security early and snoozed in the chairs. It was middle of the night according to our bodies but only 9:30 pm when we boarded. Once again everyone around me was snoring and passing the hours to Regina as they should, while I. could not sleep at all, once again. Another movie and a few walks up and down the aisles, until finally setting down in Regina.

What a great trip. The trip of our lifetime, still seems like a dream but as we start looking at the pictures we will then believe it all happened. To crawl into a pyramid in Cairo, walk around the Colosseum in Rome, visit a small Greek village, to stand where Paul preached to the Ephesians, to go down into the catacombs in Alexandria, to visit the beautiful island of Malta and dream of going back, ahhhh life has been good to us.

So that is the end of the Travel journal for this time. Soon it will change back to just my thoughts again and life will be boring once more. Maybe finally time for doing crafts, planting flowers and watching the ice go out. I hope those who were able to read some of this journal along the way, enjoyed it and it made you too want to travel to these same places or other places in this great world. Life is short, do what you can now, don't waste too much time worrying about the future...it will look after itself.