The chickens are staying at the farm, Sophie is recruited to look after the other animals. Flight is booked, RV is booked, we seem to have all we need.
BA, of course, changed our flights so we have an 8! hour wait in Los Angeles. Local advice is to go to the beach if you can dump your luggage somewhere.
Our plan is to bring 3x check-in bags and buy another suitcase in the USA if we need it on the way back.
Plan: leave at 1400, reality: leave after 6.
We wake up reasonably in time and the kids are doing their usual TV/Xbox routine by 8am. Clesan out the animals, shopping. Find out the fish pump has died, buy one (with warranty!) from the fish shop.
Clean out the chickens, quails, feed the lizards. Pidgy and Sheldon start fighting. Great. We decide to split them as we had a second cage ready for Lisa to put them while cleaning.
Half an hour later we find out that Sheldon has died. We bury him in front of the greenhouse.
By the time we have done our final shop it’s almost 1800. Drive to London, dinner at Pizza Express and straight to bed. Emma grabs her own room and Alex is on the bouncy bed in our room.
