Homebound

As great as the journey has been, we did anticipate our return to Chicago....

We stayed at the Hilton connected to Paddington station in London where the express train runs to Heathrow airport in 15 minutes. As we took the 5am train, it was nice to not have to haul our luggage across the city. Our flight was about the first one to the US and once aboard got comfortable in the new seating configuration that United has in business now. We were seated facing backwards but it wasn't a problem because often we were that way on trains across Europe. In the event of an airplane crash, it's actually better to be seated facing backwards and I've heard that military planes are configured with such seating.

The change in seating that United business has now is completely flat beds and it was the first time either of us experienced it. Passengers really get a much better sleep and it was nice to nap for half the flight as we landed at 11am with a full day ahead in Chicago. Hopefully we get some upgrades on our United accounts so we can experience it again!!!!

Home!!!!!!!!!!! Chicago greeted us as usual with clouds and light rain but it's nice to be home finally!

We've got stacks to do, 2 1/2 months worth. We haven't even started on our thank you notes even though we hauled the box of them completely around the world.

Again, thanks for everyone who followed along and we hope that it was fun to read. Our biggest wish is that all of you can visit some of the places we had the fortune to and if we provided a little bit of inspiration to do so, it was worthwhile for us to relate our travels.

Over the next few months we've got some trips planned which we also consider part of our honeymoon so feel free to check back once in a while to see what we're up to. If all goes as planned, the honeymoon will never end.....