Wow what a crazy day! We left DFW last night at about 8:15 p.m. Dallas time. It started out by Meredith and I praying that we could sit next to each other on a 9 hour flight! We didn’t realize soon enough that you were supposed to select your seats on American Airlines website. By the time we did, there were only single seats available and they were all middle seats so we just selected two seats back to back. As soon as we got on the plane we asked the people next to us to switch with one of us and everyone said no until the last guy. He actually said no initially but then he said, “Wait, I’ll do it. I’d give anything to sit by my wife”. Awesome, right! So it was a long flight but we watched the feature film “Mr. Popper’s Penguins”, a pretty good movie, and we did get some sleep and had a couple of descent meals.
Also, Meredith was able to talk with a lady who grew up in England but she and her family never went to church. She is now a part of a new age religion and is obviously searching for spiritual truth. That conversation served as another reminder that England is no longer a “Christian nation” but it is encouraging to know that people are searching. The problem is, they just don’t know where to look.
After arriving at Heathrow Airport, we got our bags and were off to the underground rail. We took the tube towards our hotel. Ok here’s where the day gets really crazy. When we were getting off the train, we got the suitcases but I left the backpack with both of our laptops inside of it! Before the doors closed a man said, “You left your bag!” so I walked back to get it and the doors closed right as he tried to hand it to me! We were obviously bewildered and distraught and weren’t sure what to do. Of all the bags to lose, this was definitely the worst because it had the most valuable as well as the most irreplaceable items in it.
Immediately we spoke with security personnel and told them what happened. They said they would check for it at the next stop and get back to us. So we waited….. Then she finally called us and told us that they had searched the train but did not find it, and that’s when our hearts sank. Then she instructed us to head upstairs to the supervisor’s office for further instruction while they checked to see if someone turned it in at another station. Amazingly, on our way up we heard an announcement calling for the “American couple who lost a bag” to contact a staff member immediately. Funny because we never told them we were American but I guess they could just tell LOL.
To make a long story short, someone had turned in our bag at another station and they had it waiting for us. Finally, we were able to pick it up and make our way to the hotel! Praise God that He answered all of our many prayers. I can’t imagine what this trip would be like without that bag! In fact, I wouldn’t even be typing this right now if we hadn’t been able to retrieve it!
We walked in the cold and the rain to our hotel with our suitcases rolling behind us on the streets of London, but it was awesome! It felt so surreal to actually be here and we knew we had a week of adventure ahead of us ;)
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