Once we finished dinner, it was time to go back to the hotel, get organized, packed, and ready to go home. The place we left 18 days prior, left our 4-legged baby, where we will unload our suitcases until the next adventure. Home.
We have so many hours ahead of our trip. But the best part of our journey home will be seeing our friends in Dublin. More on that later.
Took us quite a while to absorb we were headed home, but we packed, repacked, and then swept the room, looking for things we may have missed. We needed to be up by 3am to shower, gather the rest of our belongings, dress, and head out the door. Yesterday, Chris asked the front desk of the hotel to order us a cab for 4am. Gave us an hour to get everything ready and be downstairs to wait.
No coffee, no breakfast, no water. Just pure exhaustion and ready to get the day done. We headed to the downstairs of the hotel with 10 minutes to spare, and told the front desk guy we were waiting for our 4am cab. He offered us a seat and said they are usually on time. We waited on a very comfortable bench in the lobby. When the cab arrived, we climbed in, sighed heavily, and then on we went.
Once our cab arrived 40 minutes later, we were at the airport, and it was massive. You would think at 4:30am it would be empty? Nope, apparently people like to travel EARLY! I am more of a come early, leave late kinda gal, but when it is all day traveling and you are supposed to be back to work the next day at 7:30am, the stay late was not going to work this trip.
There were people EVERYWHERE! Well, that early in the morning, several thousand people were waiting to check in and it looked like there was no method to the madness. Our flight was with a company called Vueling and they do not travel far from home. Once we walked through the door, there was a woman to greet us. Pointed the direction we needed to go, and Chris did the exact opposite.
For the most part, Chris usually does what he thinks is right and very seldom is he wrong. She told us right, Chris went left. Now before I move on, let's talk about a couple things. First, no airport I have ever been in had someone right inside the door, making sure you're headed in the right spot. Second, the lady who greeted us again spoke English but also had a roll of saran wrap in her hand. I thought that was really odd but whatever, right?
Well come to find out later, she was asking us if we wanted to wrap our luggage. Not sure why, but while we stood in line with 300 other people checking in, many were on the floor wrapping their suitcases like a Christmas tree. Not only were there 300 other people in line but there were only 2 agents checking passengers in for the first 30 minutes in line. They added 3 more at 5am. Total time waiting, 1 hour 10 minutes. Now, when flying out of Columbus International or Tampa International Airport, you know what gate you are leaving from ahead of time. Not with Vueling!! You get to wait around until 30 minutes before the flight left and pray to God it was not on the other side of the world........Which it was. Somehow, some way, we ended up getting front-line TSA tickets so we got on the plane first. So happy at that point.
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