Kiveri is a solid 2.5-hour drive from the airport in Athens, and our flight was at 2:50pm, so we needed to hit the road pretty early (by vacation standards!). We got up, got dressed, ate a quick breakfast, and packed up the last of our things. I was concerned we wouldn't be able to get our suitcases closed, but we did it! Yiayia and papou led the way to the airport. Once we checked our bags, we sat in the airport McDonald's for a while, trying to get the kids to eat a little something before the flight. Soon, it was time to say our goodbyes and make our way through border control, then security. Then we only had a little while to wait in the terminal before it was time to board our plane to London.
My seatmate quickly fell asleep. Typical Maya, haha!
And I just thought this picture was cool. As we flew over the English Channel, we could see two countries at once! The U.K. on the left, and France on the right. Whee!
We got to Heathrow, and made it through security pretty quickly. Both kids were itching to get back to the play area in terminal five! And it's a good thing we made it there quickly, because the kids only had a little less than an hour before the play area closed for the evening. They made the most of their time there, though, and loved it (again!). Seriously-- best play area ever!
We were commenting that we only had another hour or so to fill before boarding the plane when, right at that moment, the sign changed to indicate our flight would be delayed an hour. Great. But it still went by pretty quickly. We walked around a bit, then found some comfy chairs. It wasn't too bad.
The flight from London to Boston was hard. I wanted to try and stay awake (to help me adjust to the time change more quickly), but just couldn't. Maya fell asleep pretty quickly, too. I dozed on and off the entire flight. Niko slept for a while, too, waking only to play video games on his in-seat TV (this was the best plane ever, if you ask him! It was the first one with free video games!). We landed in Boston just before 11pm, then waited in the long line to get through border control. That was the worst part of the entire travel experience. It was slow-going, and both kids were WIPED. They were both on the verge of tears, wanting me to carry them. I alternated kids, but they are just getting too big-- plus I was holding my backpack, my purse, and Maya's backpack. It was rough. But we made it through, and were rewarded with our luggage coming out onto the carousel almost immediately. We breezed through customs. And then we sat and waited for the bus to take us back to the bus depot.
The bus arrived after about half an hour, and we had another half-hour ride to get to the depot. And from there, it was another 45 minutes to get to our house. But 23.5 hours after leaving our apartment in Greece, at almost 2am local time, we made it home, safe and sound. Hallelujah!
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