17th June into 18th
This morning we got up and packed our many bags, which
actually wasn’t too bad now we had the extra one!
We checked out of the Dolphin leaving our bags with
Bell Services for a little while.
We made a final trip to Disney Springs and the Earl of
Sandwich, I got a holiday turkey and Rob had another Earl’s Club. We then did a
little bit of shopping, including a search for my traditional castle pin with
Cinderella (which was oddly hard to find.)
We headed back to the hotel to collect our bags then
went to the airport, we arrived at around 1400 and there was a reasonably long
line at Bag Drop.
Security was surprisingly quiet and we didn’t have to
wait at all. We got a coffee for me, and a drink for Rob and sat at the gate
for a while using the power to charge our phones.
Amazingly we boarded and left on time! Which hardly
ever happens for us! The food was not too bad for dinner, then we both tried to
sleep. I woke up at around 4am so read a book on my phone, breakfast was the
same rubbish that you get in economy – croissant, cereal bar and raisins.
We arrived back at Gatwick at 0625...! Still had a
ridiculous wait at passport control but bags were fast and we managed to catch
a train to Clapham at 0711 and it was all looking good...until some genius
decided to split the train which caused a 34 minute delay!
As a resuly we missed the first train we had hoped to
catch but got on the 0827 which was only 3 coaches and had tiny luggage racks.
So we ended up standing/sitting in a compartment outside a toilet with our
bags....why do we have trains which make travelling to/from an airport a
nightmare?!
We got back and Rob’s mum collected us and brought us
back to our house. Shortly after we collected the dog from the kennels (he
arrived back with no issues with his eyes while we were away) and so here he is
relaxing in the conservatory!
