August 28
We flew home :-/ We weren't really ready for the vacation to be over but we were pretty much over playing tourist. Everything was fairly uneventful. We caught the Lufthansa shuttle to the airport in Munich, breakfast and rummy in the airport, and no actual problems getting to Heathrow. We had an unexplained rough landing into Heathrow that I was not happy with - the plane was literally tipping from side to side. Once in Heathrow we wandered through the maze that is Heathrow Airport and left just a bit late because the rough wind that had caused our bumpy landing had backed up the air traffic. After that things were good until we entered the Baltimore-Washington airspace.
Then things changed...
The announcement came that due to weather at Dulles, we were going to have to be in a somewhat lengthy holding pattern around Dulles. BUT... we didn't have the fuel to do that (whoa) so they were going to land the plane at BWI (seriously?!?), refuel and then we'd be on our way.
Then things changed again...
The flight attendant came back over the PA and said that we'd been given clearance to go ahead and land at Dulles. To which the co-pilot felt the need to explain further that really, we had enough fuel for the change. Thanks for reminding me of that little problem - I had been happy that we were just landing. We made a very hard, very obvious even in a plane, turn and soon were on the ground at Dulles only about an hour and half late.
We made it home and out to dinner with Liz so she would keep us awake.
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