home sweet home

In Finland, needed two matches to get in. Our first match we played a Finland team and won, our second match we played against a Spain team and lost in two :( What makes this lost worse is that there were 2 lucky loser draws. ( Meaning that 2 teams from the main draw had pulled out, and it our names had to be pulled out of a bowl). So the first draw was us and Canada.......and canada got picked. Second draw, was us and Great Britain......and GB got pulled out! Sign or what? What are the odds of our names not getting pulled out twice, both times 50% chance! So we both took a deep breath and walked out and said, "okay, this is a sign." So we both took the 11:45pm ferry out of Aland, that night to Helsinki. Arrived in Helsinki at about 10 am, went straight to the aiport, and tried to change our flight. We got a flight out that day to London. Once we got to London we tried to get on a flight that night out to LAX, but there were no more flights. So we took a flight out the next morning which would get us in to LA at about 2:40pm. So we had a night to stay in London. Diane and I called our friend Guy Perry who lives in London, but is one of those guys that is always traveling and we didnt think we would actually get to see him.. But what do you know?....we call him and he is in town! So that just made our night stay on London even better. We were actually just going to sleep in the airport since hotels in London were so expensive, but Guy was not going to have that, so he helped us out with a hotel! We had a very lovely time,drinking wine, eating chicken, talking with a British accent, watching people snooting, and talking fun pictures! Then next morning we were on a stand by flight to LAX and got in, and here I am, sitting on my couch, with my fiance and dog. Life is Grand!!!
Guy...i know you are reading this, so thank you, thank you, so much for our time London, you have no idea how much you are appreciated!