May 15th- Coming home!

 The general sentiment when leaving Switzerland was sadness, though some excitement about being home again. We started our early morning with another hotel breakfast (cold meats and cheeses with bread, croissants, donuts, cereal, bacon, sausage, eggs, and rice). After packing we all took turns weighing our luggage and playing tetris with all our treasures to try to stay under the weight limit! Our original bus broke down coming to get us, but another was soon on its way! After checking in and going through security we went straight to our gate to leave for London. We said farewell to Emma and Sara, as they had different travel plans from us.

Some slept, some read, some watched shows for the two hour flight. After going through immigration and security again, we had two hours to explore Heathrow…except for a few who forgot to remove some liquids and got held up at security for a bit! When it came time to go to our gate, the line was quite long and a few of us were asked to take what felt like a secret passage way behind and under Heathrow! We ended up walking quite far to get to our gate, but we made it. 

For the 10.5 hour flight, we did enjoy a delicious on plane meal called “Hunter’s Chicken” which apparently is just BBQ chicken with cheese. We did also have the most amazing brownie that we attempted to get more of from the friendly flight crew. After retrieving our luggage we went our separate ways, with a small group shuttling back to campus before heading home. We were exhausted from a very long day, but glad to be home to sleep in our own beds again and enjoy the A/C! 

Signing off! -Dr. Sullins