07/06/10 – We Made It!
This is a photo of us waiting at Birmingham Airport. I was totally convinced that I was going to be sick for the whole of the journey, so I took sickness tablets and wore those pressure band thingies around my wrists. Flying was a whole new experience for me and I’m so glad that Sam was with me or I would have been totally lost instantly – he had to stop me from walking into Arrivals; explaining that we were departing, not arriving!! …. it was very early in the morning!
Once we had boarded the plane to Paris I prepared myself for feeling ill – I located the sick bag and waited, and waited and then realised that I was ok! It was such a relief and it meant that I could enjoy looking out at all the clouds, fields and sea. Once we got to Paris we boarded a plane to Atlanta where I took full advantage of the fact that I could eat and had pizza and ice cream! Our plane was late, so we missed the connection to Knoxville. Fortunately we were quickly put onto the next plane and arrived at about 9.30pm local time.
I think that we were both quite suprised that our luggage made it to the right place. We collected it and picked up our hire car. The drive from Knoxville to the cabin was about an hour. Sam did a good job as we were both tired and grumpy. He managed to drive a strange car on the wrong side of the road, in the dark, after staying awake for 20 hours. We were making sure that we were doing the right speed (45mph) when we went past a police car – as soon as we went past, the Sheriff followed us and pulled us over. We were both scared, but remembered to stay in the car ( we’ve watched lots of Police Stop! on telly ). He told us that when a police car is on the hard shoulder you must move out of the lane next to the hard shoulder – this is a legal requirement! ( only in Tennessee though! ) We pleaded ignorance and said that we were English, which worked and we were let off with a warning. Welcome to Tennessee!
We eventually made it to the cabin and went straight to bed!
Lucy