Time to Go Home 😭

Travelling day so another early start.
Alarm at 6.00 am and out of the door an hour later but first another quick last look at the view.
After saying our goodbyes 👋 to Patti it was into our chauffeur driven car, once again by Greg, who kindly took us the 1 & 1/2 hour drive from Longboat Key in Sarasota to Tampa International Airport, via the new Sunshine Skyway Bridge.
Arriving at the airport, we said our goodbyes 👋 to Greg and thanked him for all he and Patti had done for us and vowing to meet up again soon we joined our 1st queue. Outside on the pavement is a fasttrack queue for Delta Airways. As we are flying to New York we waited in line only to find out about 15 minutes later we are in the wrong queue and we should be inside the airport. So off we go and while Jayne stands at the back of a long Delta queue I go and check to confirm that's where we should be. Following another announcement we joined another (but much shorter) queue for international destinations where we were finally able to Check-in and dispose of our cases. We joined the departures queue checking tickets before joining the queue to go through Security and baggage check. After this we stood in the non-queue waiting line to take the short shuttle ride to the Hub where our gate is.
Hurray, finally through and no more queues. To celebrate I joined the the coffee ☕️ queue that went half around the Starbucks kiosk. Checking the Departures Board and we still had plenty of time as our flight was delayed 1/2 an hour so we slowly 🐌 made our way down to Gate E66.
It's a good job we didn't rush because when we arrived at the Check-in desk our flight was further delayed to 15:45. Being true Brits we then joined the queue to find out what was going on with our flight and ongoing connection. Apparently there was a mechanical problem with the aircraft; as they say in America....No Bathrooms! Well I'll go before I fly I thought its only 2 & 1/2 hours, but no the aircraft can't leave. What about our connection we asked, no problem you still have over an hour to make it.
Fortunately the plane left well before the re(re)scheduled time and we arrived at JFK with time to spare.Read more