Anniston 17-18 July 2024 - The return

Dawn, approaching the UK on 18 July 2024

After a poor night's sleep, I was woken to need to leave in 30 minutes. This was quite a panic, and I missed breakfast, although Jo did not.  We didn't quite make the 30 minutes, but it wasn't too bad.  Jo couldn't find the keys to her bag lock, but they were where she thought they were - that's the level of panic we were at.

We are off to meet Robert's friend, where Robbie will be staying the night.  We meet them at Ted's, a restaurant that serves Bison.  We have eaten in one of them before, in Washington, and the food is very good.

After dropping Robbie off, and having a little time to catch our thoughts, we headed to the airport.   Arriving 15 minutes later than I would have liked, we again had problems with check-in, going to the wrong desk.  The baggage drop lady was a bit brusque and careless.  She chucked our bags on the belt and hardly said a word.  The security staff also seemed to have had a bad week. They were uninterested and did nothing to stop some people pushing through the queue - it was chaotic.  The tray with my laptop was sent off well ahead of me, and I briefly lost track of it. 

We were through security by 17:00 and got some water and sat in the restaurant area for a bit.  We arrived at the gate at 17:40, boarding was scheduled to start at 17:55.

18:26 an announcement that the plane is still being cleaned.  Followed by an announcement telling us that Atlanta airport is the most efficient in the world (clearly not true at the moment).

19:25 seated on the plane
19:35 left gate
19:43 take off

I watched 'Ferrari'

21:17 I had finished my meal, it consisted of:

Chicken curry & rice
Side salad
Buttered role
Cheese & biscuit
Chocolate mouse. 

While eating, service was suspended due to turbulence for about 20 minutes. The crew were instructed to take their seats - the turbulence was not bad.  Again, I think they are overreacting to the recent tragic incident.

01:38 I had finished breakfast

Egg muffin
Cranberry grain bar
Yoghurt
Coffee

02:48 landed (07:48 local time) and spend 20 minutes waiting for a stand

03:09 at stand 

We got through border control amazingly quickly, there was literally no wait. Our bags turned up quickly, and we were off to meet the taxi driver.  We had to wait a few minutes for her because we had come through so quickly.  It was a pleasant, uneventful ride home.  The rest of the day is a tired blur.

It seems we bought the Alabama weather back with us for a day.