Here is how the return went on Wednesday. We had the first plane from Geneva to London at noon, we took this opportunity to take a last picture in Switzerland at the airport (picture 1).
In London we had a three hours layover we spent having fun (picture 2).
The trouble started after having boarded the plane, because of the traffic at Heathrow we took off one hour behind schedule. During the flight the pilot could not make up any time because of the strong headwind. We nevertheless got a good look at the mountains and icebergs of Greenland (picture 3).
We landed in Chicago more than an hourway behind schedule. When we finished with immigration and customs, we should have been boarding our connecting flight. We were resigned to spend the night there. At the airline desk we were quickly issued new boarding passes for the following morning. When I inquired about hotel vouchers, another employee informed us that our connecting flight got delayed. We ran across the airport and made it to the gate on time. There, to our biggest surprise, we came across our friend and his son, with whom we had visited Versailles in July. We had time to chat about our great time in Europe before boarding. We learned that the reason for the delay was the storm over Tulsa that occurred earlier on. We retrieved all of our suitcases after landing and went home at almost 1 a.m. but happy to have made it fine. Thank you for taking time to read our blog. I hope your enjoyed it.
Phil
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