Stacie and I had to travel back to the States on the 31st, and were there until the 6th for reasons soon to be described in our blog. As many of you know, traveling certainly has its ups and downs. The trip home consisted of our usual midnight bus ride down to Istanbul, a flight to London, Los Angeles, and finally Reno (for a grand total of 39 hours from Sliven to Reno). We booked with three different carriers in order to get the best deal and the best connection times because we had to book so last minute. Our journey home went completely without incident and we made all our connections.
But the way back was a different story. We had a 3pm flight out of Los Angeles to London but did not depart until 9:30pm because of a freak snow storm in London and all of the problems they have been having there. Of course, we missed our connection flight on WizzAir as a result. But lucky for us, if we had not been delayed by that much we would not have met Elijah Wood waiting for our baggage. These candid photos are the only pics I have, as we were in a hurry to try and make our connection (in vain). I wanted to give blogstar readers the exclusive, you won't find this stuff anywhere else.
The conversation went like this: I walked up to him and said “are you Elijah Wood”, and he said “yeah, I am” then I said “wow, nice to meet you”. That was pretty much it. I do regret not asking for a picture of us together for further proof, or some kind of autograph, but unfortunately I did not have a copy of Lord of the Rings handy. I have seen all three movies at least two times a piece and do consider myself a fan. So thanks British Air.
Unfortunately, that WizzAir flight to Sofia was the last one for the day, so we had to spend the night in London. Because we did not book that last leg through British Air, they said they could not help us with anything from that point on. “We are only responsible for getting you here” the customer service guy said. How kind. We soon discovered how much we hated a weak dollar when we got a room for the night and booked our flight out the next day. But we arrived in Sofia yesterday morning at 2am and were happy to be back only two and a half days after leaving.
Terminal 5 in London smells quite new actually and is very pleasing to the eye, but I just don’t like the idea of flying on British Air anymore.
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