The End of the Holiday

Well, the Holiday is over... we endured 36 hours and 4 airplane rides to get home (including 2 6 hour layovers in Nairobi and London.) Unfortunately, we were unable to duck out of the airport (we had 3 month visas already) and go to dinner at Carnivores Restaurants. It is a restaurant where they serve all kinds of wild game.. they grill the meat on large skewers.. and just carry the skewers to your table and slice off a few hunks of meat. Mmmmmmmm.. Me Maasii woman, me love MEAT. (ok.. so Im Norweigan.. but I swear there is a link between Maasii and Nowegian.)

Well, We started off our holiday by flying to London. (I flew from Fresno to LAX, Mum flew from SLO to LAX.) I met mum at the airport and we then climbed aboard a United Flight to Heathrow. The plane was pretty much PACKED... and a lady that mum had travelled with from SLO didnt have a seat assignment.... oh were we envious when she got placed in business class! (She, Pam, was soooo chuffed with herself.) Mum and I had seats a row apart... but we got ppl to change seats so we were able to sit together, so I promptly pulled out Gumby and took pics of him hanging out on my food tray. (When I sort out how to download the pics from camera phone, Ill post them.) Anyhoo, after 10 hours of very short naps..... we arrived at Heathrow. We got through customs and then went to board a BMI plane to Edinburgh.

Once we got to Edi, it was a cab ride into town... checked in at the Castle Apartments main reception lounge. The lad checking us in had the most striking green/blue eyes... he saw my Yosemite shirt and was giddy about California as he had worked there for a stint of time.
We got another cab to the apartments.. and then the surprise came... uh, they didnt tell it was a 3rd floor walk up.. (and mind you 3rd floor in UK/EU means 4th floor in American. ) We had to shlep our stuff up the spiral staircase to our room which was NOT to the standard that we found on the website.... gee.. never believe what you see or hear on the internet... novel idea eh? But at least it was a room and a loo and a so called bed.... and they had tea!!!!!! and sugar and milk... PROPER Tea was promptly in order.