The long journey home

Wow coming back to the US took a lot longer than expected. I flew from Stockholm-London-Chicago. Well.... In London we took off as normal but this weird high pitched buzzing happened while we were taking off. I already have anxiety now when I fly but for some reason I was oddly calm. The take off was also bumpier than usual. Oh well we didn't plummet into our doom upon take off which I'm scared of will happen. So I started to settle in to my seat for the long flight then around Ireland the pilot announces that we hit a bird on take off. The control tower has been watching our flight, the bird did a lot of damage to the engine, thus we have to turn around. Also we had to dump fuel since we can't land right now... Oh god! Terrifying to hear I just wanted to be landed.. We eventually landed then it was chaos at Heathrow to get everyone hotel rooms. I got put up in Gatwick from Heathrow so that was a trek. At least we got home safe eventually!

The first pictures are from Stockholm, I went out to Josefina's my last night. Then at Heathrow I had some oysters and some nice New Zealand wine. Finally I picked up a candle and some perfume while waiting at the airport. :) Overall it was an inconvenience getting home but I am happy with the airline for keeping us safe and informing us what was going on.

xxElizabeth