Updates

Good Morning!

Gee, I'm already pretty bad at updating this, sorry! So how is it we've ended up here with one in twenty year weather? It's freezing here (literally), however I won't complain too much as I know things are much worse at home. My condolences go out to anyone who has lost a home, a family member, friend or pet in the bushfires. If only you could have some of our cold and snow!

So, we eventually got out of Heathrow and proceeded up to Aberdeen....well that was the plan. We actually circled Aberdeen for about 30 minutes and then we were diverted to Edinburgh as Aberdeen airport was closed. The next part of the fun was that the pilot had exceeded his flying hours for the day, so even if they opened the airport again, he couldn't fly us up there. There was going to be about an hour wait, and then a bus ride to Aberdeen :( By this time it was about 4pm, and we had been scheduled to get into Aberdeen at about 10:30am. We had been awake for nearly 48 hours straight and were totally sick of travelling.

We finally worked out the phone numbers and called Carol. She insisted we were not going to catch the bus, which would have probably taken about 4 hours in the snow. What an angel! Carol and Derek left work early and drove down to Edinburgh to pick us up - it was wonderful to get in a comfy car instead of public transport.

To be continued....with photos