Aside from my champagne bath at LHR, the only other little problem traveling out to DC was the 2 1/2 hour flight delay due to some computer at Manchester which supplies flight data crashing. After a couple of hours the pilot appeared looking nervous. It must be policy to send them out to reassure people when there is a significant delay. He got as far as our seats and stopped for a chat. We were laughing and joking. He said that a surefire way to make passengers panic was for him to walk down the plane carrying a spanner and wearing a life vest!!
The flight was uneventful and we arrived into Dulles to find a nice shiny new arrivals hall. And most importantly - no queue!! It used to be that you could be stuck there for hours waiting to get through passport control.
We collected the car, drove to the hotel and then jumped in their shuttle down to Chadwicks and a big juicy, char grilled burger! De-lic-ious!! Then we went to the weekend office to listen to the blues band. We were ripped off on the wine though. $13 quid a glass!! Harumph!
By 11:30pm we were bot gritty eyed after having been up for a looooong time, so we jumped a taxi back to the hotel and were in bed and asleep about 20 seconds later.
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