this morning my grdad and jammma had to leave. boooo. we all got up early. everyone got dressed. mom loaded us in the car and drove us to a nearby restaurant. there was much chatter and eating. except me, i didn't really eat anything. mom ordered me a biscuit but i thought everything smelled bad so i didn't want to eat.
after breakfast it was back in the car and mom drove us all to dad's work. dad got out and got covered in hugs and kisses by his mom and dad. embarrassing when you're 5, super embarrassing when you're old like dad. haha.
mom drove us back home and it was bathroom breaks all around and lugging bags out to the car. i can't believe it's been a month already. i wish jammma and grdad could stay longer but mom says they have things to do back in derby. oh well. they'll be back again eventually.
so all the bags were packed in the car. we all got in our seats and mom drove us down to orlando. it was kind of rainy but no big deal. it's a long drive but there was hardly any traffic so the trip went quick. it only took us 2hrs to get to the airport. mom found the good parking right near the entrance. she showed grdad how to get a luggage cart. all the bags got loaded onto the cart and into the airport we went.
jammma and grdad's flight wasn't for hours and hours. we got there kind of early, the check in desks weren't even open yet. we just walked around the airport for a bit. orlando has a pretty awesome airport even if it is full of screaming kids going disney crazy. we stopped for some lunch. i had garlic bread and dipping sauce in addition to a super yummy chocolate milkshake. mom's lunch wasn't so awesome. she ate most of her spinach stromboli thing before finding a dead ladybug in it. yuck. the food place gave her the money back though so no big deal.
after lunch we walked around a bit more. the check in desk finally opened so grdad and jammma got rid of their bags. mom sat down on a bench and i went off and had a walk on my own with jammma and grdad. we talked about stuff. we walked back to mom and said our final goodbyes. sad but not too sad. i didn't cry. mom and i walked over to the elevators. one was being worked on. i asked the guy what was going on. he let me behind the safety gate and i got to watch the repair man working on all the different wires. pretty awesome. that's something you don't get to do every day. the working elevator came. i gave one last wave to jammma and grdad and that was that.
mom and i walked back to the car alone. mom asked me not to open my car door but i did anyway. i opened it a bit too far and nicked the paint on the car parked next to us. oh man. i got a wicked telling off from mom. i don't see what the big deal is, our car was fine. lesson learned- nick the paint of a $60,000 car and mom will be rather annoyed. in my defence you'd think a $60,000 car would have a better paint job. that shit just came right off.
when mom was done giving me an earache we drove off into the rainstorm. we made it most of the way out of orlando before a massive storm poured down. hazard lights had to be turned on. it rained so hard everything went grey and you couldn't see the road or the car in front of you. pretty scary. mom and i made it through just fine though. the rain eventually eased up a bit and i fell asleep.
i woke up to mom slapping my leg and shouting- hardwick we're home! i opened my eyes, we were not home, just at the intersection near our house. it's rainy here too.
now i'm home mom and i are just going to take it easy for a few days. i'm going to watch back to the future.