Staying Zen in all the madness...

So I decided to post again about my travels to my new home in England. Embarking on my new adventure in the UK was a crazy and eventful journey! Mother nature was not cooperative and did it's best to keep me from making it to the airport yesterday. My original plan was to have brunch with Paul and Shannon and my parents, before my parents and I drove up to Mark and Sarah's. I was also supposed to say last minute goodbyes to 3 of my favourites. Then my parents and I were supposed to spend a nice day with Mark, Sarah, and James going to dinner on Saturday and brunch on Sunday. At that point my parents would head home and I would spend some fabulous quality time with Mark, Sarah, and James and fly out on Wednesday night at 10:08 pm. I had also arranged to have dinner with friends on Sunday and Tuesday nights. Alas some of this went as planned but much of it did not...

It all started Friday night when all hell broke lose in Hampton Roads and about 6 inches or so of snow fell. Now of course this never happens there so obviously preparation and clear-up was not what it needed to be. So the decision was made to just hold off on the departure until Sunday at least and most likely Monday. This ended up not being the worst thing to happen as my packing was not going as planned and I needed more time to ensure that I did not go over the luggage weight limit. So plans began to unravel and I was unable to have brunch with Paul and Shannon and had to settle for stopping by their place and saying my goodbyes. Then Joy was unable to stop by on Monday before I left due to work issues, but I was able to visit with Mr. and Mrs. Sluss right before I left which was so nice! The huge decision of who was going to drive me up to NOVA was made and at lunch time and it was decided that my dad would take me on his own. Right before we left my mum noticed that one of my suitcases had a tear. The trip up to NOVA was really good and there were very few issues however upon our arrival at our destination we found that the suitcase had split beyond our repair.

I was fortunately able to reschedule my dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and had a fabulous dinner with them on Monday night instead of Sunday. Tuesday morning I said a tearful goodbye to the father and got to spend some great quality time with the sister-in-law and nephew. Poor little man was pushed a little too much being dragged around looking for replacement luggage. The forecast Tuesday morning brought bad news though as snow was about to take down NOVA but we managed to make it home as more snow began to arrive and due to the forecast I got to have lunch with Jen as well as dinner plans were not looking good. Dinner plans were canceled for Tuesday night as the weather was just not good. Wednesday went as planned though and Sarah, James and I spent more quality time together and I was able to have a nice, albeit anxiety ridden, dinner with the Curtis Family the Sequel. They were then nice enough to help with with my ridiculous luggage and saw me off inside the airport.

Throughout it all I did my best to stay zen and not get upset or anxious about all the things that didn't go as planned and remember that as long as I made it to my flight nothing else matters really. It's not like I will never see people again! Anyway my lovelies that is all for now!