This is the 16th and last post in this series which has detailed everything you ever wanted to (and didn't want to) know about the two weeks Jared and I spent in Ireland and London. To start at the very beginning, go here

Day 16 – Time to go home

This morning was the most hectic day of our trip. We realized after we got up that we still needed to pay, and our hotel charged a 5% fee to use the credit card. I ran out to get cash and after 4 ATMs rejected me, I gave up and accepted the fee.

We then got to the Tube to go to the airport and I realized I had completely forgotten my Kindle under my pillow at the hotel. I ran back and got it.

Then we get into the Tube station and our Oyster Cards (tube tickets, like the Charlie Card in Boston) was 20 cents short of getting there. You can only put more than 5 pound on the card with a credit card, and the machines won’t give change for our 10 pound note, so I ran to the street, bought a banana and we added money to the card.

Then we get to the tube line we want to take, and they are saying they aren’t making any stops at Paddington station – the station we want to go to. We have no idea how to get to Heathrow without going through Paddington. We get on the tube and just hope they make announcements telling us what to do.

The train DOES stop at Paddington (our first break) and we find out we missed the train to the airport and have to wait 45 minutes for the next one. Fine, we get our ticket, some breakfast and sit down to wait.

Things went pretty smoothly from there, but the Heathrow airport is crazy. It has two times as many passport and security checks as any other airport we have gone through, we were both overwhelmed and exhausted by the time we got to our gate.

We made the flight, and as of writing this are on our way home to two lonely kitties and work tomorrow. You go away so you can remember how good your life is, and we are both excited to be coming home.