After the adrenalin high of Saturday night, we had the low on Sunday morning. We could barely wake up. Our tiredness wasn't helped by the 4am text message. When will Stephen learn to switch it off at night, and when will people learn that he doesn't!!
We dragged ourselves out of bed and packed, checked out of the hotel, then drove down to Rudy's with all of our stuff. We were refugees with our worldly goods in bags standing on his doorstep. I honestly cannot thank them enough for their kind and generous offer to take us in. There were no hotel rooms to be had in the area. Or at least no affordable ones, and 10 days at $300+ per night was a scary thought...
We then scooted off to meet Rob at his Alexandria office and collect the laptops. This was great. We had a place to work and hopefully something to work on. Things were shaping up!
After that we had to get out to Dulles airport to swap rental cars as it had been significantly cheaper for me to book a new one than to extend the one we already had. I nearly died laughing when I saw what they'd given us. We have a Pimpmobile!!!! Honestly, we drove to the baseball on Tuesday through SE DC (the not so nice bit!) and some brother in the same car pulled alongside, window down and some terrible noise that may have been music blasting out the stereo! I'm just glad we didn't get hit in some mistaken drive-by shooting!! I sooooo wanted to find the Stock, Aitken and Waterman radio station and retaliate for the terrible noise, but then that may have opened up the possibility that we really would have been shot!!
When we were at the airport we took the opportunity to go in and speak to Virgin. The desk was quiet which surprised me - I was expecting a scrum. But I guess they'd let everyone know not to turn up. They were helpful, and also said that people who were informed they were cancelled on Sunday were being booked onto flights in May. That rather put things in perspective!
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