london, part one

Our holiday with my parents was supposed to start two Fridays ago at Heathrow airport at approximately 1:20 PM Greenwich Mean Time.

Then our flight from Aberdeen was canceled.

With no way to contact my parents while they were in the air, we had to just get on the next soonest plane, fly to a different airport, and try to meet them as soon as we could. I called the airport and the plan was for them to receive a page an hour after their flight landed telling them to meet us at Victoria Station at 4:00 PM.

Turns out they never got the page. Darren and I frantically searched the station for an hour, until he finally convinced me that they were still at Heathrow, having never known to leave there for Victoria. We decided to split up, me staying 'just in case' and him going to the airport to collect them. We had missed three calls, but since we can't check our voicemail on our hand-me-down phone, had no way of getting a hold of them.

The next two hours were like the most miserable of my life of late. It was FREEZING in the station, like an idiot, I had worn capris, and our mobile was dying. I found a Starbucks that would let me charge my phone, and I waited for Darren to call me with news. When my phone rang about an hour and half later and it was my Dad's voice on the other line asking "Ummm, Lindsey? Where are you?", I just lost it.

There I was in Victoria Station, in LONDON (my dream come true), crying like a baby.


An hour later we were all reunited and the rest of the trip went off without a hitch.

We had SO much fun and took 1006 pictures by the time the two weeks are over. Don't worry, I won't post every single one.

I got sick two days into the trip and was hopped up on Cold & Sinus medicine the whole time, so Darren was completely and utterly in charge of the camera. My favorite pictures are the ones he took of my parents when they were first seeing all of the major sites. It makes me cry just looking at these.

Rod, Marilyn, Parliament

Marilyn, Big Ben, Rod

I miss them so bad it hurts.