Big Adventure

Lucy and Jessica leave for London tomorrow morning. I am working, so I will not be able to see them off at the airport, nor to make sure they haven't accidentally put sewing scissors in their carry-ons (as if they would), or left an iPod on the security screening conveyor belt (as Jessica did last year), or missed the final call for the flight to Newark because they were in the bathroom,  and so on and so on.  I think this trip is a bigger step for me than it is for them....

I'm sure they will be fine. Lucy flew to Cincinnati alone earlier this summer for the *cough* US National Youth Rowing Championship (if I haven't mentioned this several times already!) and not only changed planes in Dallas, but had to catch the shuttle train to a different terminal to do so. On the way home her flight from Cincinnati to Chicago was cancelled, and she was rebooked onto a different flight with a different airline, fortunately straight to Austin, and managed to get her bags back, and  make the change  all by herself.

This time they have a 3-hour flight to Newark and then a 3-hour layover before their evening flight to London. My mother-in-law will meet them at 645am at Heathrow. Once they've found each other , I will stop worrying. But it's going to be a long Sunday from this end...