After arriving at the office, I checked BBC online to find my hopes of a quick getaway dashed. No air space was opening up. At this rate our flight on the 28th would be in jeopardy and we'd be returning to the UK sometime in August. If we didn't just apply for our Green Cards of course!
It certainly made me really despondent. There was a glimmer of hope we might get home sooner, then it was snatched away. It turned out to be a changing situation though and thanks to BA brinkmanship I caught the headline that UK air space was open just as we were leaving the office. Thank you to everyone who sent emails and texts to let me know!
I wrote down the precise instructions on the Nats website for directions to the game. When we were nearing the ballpark I realised that we're doing SatNag down in some respects. The Americans must give fundamentally different instructions than the Brits as the ones on the Nats website were equally as likely to send us wrong as SatNag woman was. When we came back she instructed us to go left, then go left when what we were doing was changing lane. Confusingly she also says Go Left when telling you to turn left. Hmmmmm.
The Nats lost. But its always fun to go to the baseball! The Five Guys burger was great. The banter of the beer sellers was great. The beer was great.
Our hosts were flaked out on the sofa when we got home - waiting for the teenage kids (us) to come home maybe? At least with the opening of the air space they won't be forced to adopt us!!
Spent an hour on hold to Virgin before giving up at midnight.
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