Well firstly in case you didn't know Ted kennedy's funeral was in Boston on saturday, so this was the start of a few things that made my trip back a pain.
So i got to Boston airport and it was raining and very grey and well very English really, but the thing was we where wondering if my flight was going to be delayed or canceled because of this, as it was just the start of a tropical storm that was moving up the east coast. I got through check in after being put into basically a holding pen for 30mins because i had a paper ticket so had to wait for a real person to check me in. This was a pain but was ok, and i got through secuirty very quickly as it was a internal flight so there where not many people around, and i got to where the plane would be coming in very quickly. I saw the board that tells you times etc. and it siad my flight was on time which was great, but i did have about a hour to wait so i found a seat got out my headphones and listened to music. Now about 5 mins before boarding was ment to start the plane still wasn't there so something was up, and you guessed it something was up, dew to the weather the plane wasn't going to be able to land until like 30mins after it should have, which really wasn't good for me as i only had a 1 hour and 10 mins before my next flight left Washington from when i should have got to Washington.
Well after about 20mins the plane was able to land and boarding took place so i had a little more time as they said they where going to try and make up most of the time in the air, basically push the engines a little faster. But as we where lining up to taking off, they then said they where not able to take off for like 15 mins as the US planes had to take off first (basically all the planes with the people from Ted's funeral) so it not meant once again i would be very hard pushed to make it to my flight one time.
Once we got in the air we did make up some time and once we got into Washington they left people with connecting flights off first which was handy, it gave me about 30 mins before the flight left to get to it, it was going to be really close but there was a good chance i was going to make it. So i ran to the screen found where the flight was and ran to the gate.
But luckily all was ok as my second flight had also been delayed dew to weather (so i guess all flights coming in/out of Washington had been delayed? maybe who knows), this ment that all was fine they hadn't even started boarding. After getting on the plane everything went to plan which was great, one thing that did make me laugh was as the captin was doing his speech thingy at the start (you know welcome to the flight thank you for flying with us etc etc) he said "and in the pocket in front of you, you will find the magazine with infomation on what will be showing on your tv's, which is completely useless as the technicians have already uploaded Septembers programs and we don't have the September magazine yet". This really made me laugh and was a real pain as he said what was on what channel and if you could remember you had to ask a member of staff for a peace of paper with it on.
Apart from this the flight was fine and i got back into London at 6am, dad picked me up and off i went home to sleep and try to get back into the England time.
And that is my trip to the US over, what can i say i had a amazing time and enjoyed every min of it and really wish it didnt end to quickly, but oh well i guess its back to the normal boring dya for me..
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