The trip that I am not planning! Day 5 - 28th March

This morning we had an alarm at 0615 which felt early! We got ready and packed our last few bits.

I did receive a message from Jennifer at about 0700 asking me why we weren’t at the airport (she thought the time difference was 2 hours not 3 so once I reminded her she was less concerned).

We got our final Uber of the trip to the airport which was a smooth journey.

We were able to drop our bags very quickly and then we headed to security where our bath and bodyworks candles were checked.

I got a coffee from Dunkin as I hadn’t yet had my caffeine for the morning but oddly we didn’t actually get any breakfast – we did have muffins in the room before we left but still!

We boarded on time and had a smooth flight, we had entertainment via our phones this time, although I can’t remember what I watched. I think Rob watched the Ford movie (he’s not here to ask).

We had 2 lots of drinks during the flight and some more biscoff, although no pretzels.

We arrived at Philadelphia on time at 1700, bags took a little while but we were then on our shuttle bus to the car hire place.

We collected our pick-up truck which we mostly booked because it was one of the cheapest options for the weekend and headed to Jen and Tom’s.

We arrived at the house and they were both visibly impressed (other words are available) with our chosen vehicle. ;)

We were quite hungry so we ordered Pizza for dinner.

We also apparently decided to pretend it was my birthday for the weekend (as we normally visit for that weekend in Feb) so there was a ‘Happy Birthday’ banner in our room and gifts for both Rob and I. I also had an amazing birthday card signed by the cats 

We had used our cricut before our trip and had made Tom a sign for his office – Jennifer had told me the wording he wanted.

We also had bought Jennifer her Peloton century shirt (which Rob and I had personalised) and she was suitably amused. Sadly, none of us had our camera’s to capture her reaction which was quite funny.

We also swapped some snacks – we had lots of dark chocolate snacks from the UK (which oddly I haven’t taken a photo of) and returned with some Girl Scout cookies and some Christmas coffee (which they had a surplus of and I liked!)

We spent the evening catching up as while we saw Tom briefly in September we hadn’t all been together since February 2023.

Rob and I were quite tired so I think we had an early night.