Monday their flight in got delayed about 4 hours so I was unable to go with to the airport to pick them up. After my main job I was summoned to my on call job but when I got there they had not yet received the shipment so I was sent home.
Once home I greeted the family then went off to deal with ASDA for repeatedly screwing up my grocery order and after three phone calls finally decided to tell them just to refund me for the stuff I never got.
Then back to on call job since they finally got stuff in. When I finished there I billed for 1.5 hours plus travel since I had to come back and the weather was rubbish. They did not feel like breaking a twenty so I got what I wanted plus a X-mas bonus!! So I went to the bus stop across the street, traffic was HORRENDOUS for some reason, and once the bus got to the round-a-bout the bus driver decided that he did not want to try and wait to get up the hill so he was going to go around, it seemed like a good idea. Little did the driver or anyone else know the traffic was bad everywhere and I ended up stuck on a non heated bus for 1.5 hours;( So a 20-30 minute walk became an hour and a half bus ride. I knew I should have walked but did not want to get in trouble with the partner.
By the time I got home at about 730-8 everyone else was so tired they just went to bed after I had supper, so no fun for me Monday. Tuesday I had to leave for work before guests were up but I lucked out when they decided they could not be bothered to go to Reading and went to Staines instead. My lovely boss let me off an hour early because the fam stopped by to say hi. We went to Staines and shopped til we dropped and then came home had desert and went to bed. Today we are hoping to get out to London to visit the Christmas market on the last day.
I am going to start a new segment on this blog that will highlight either differences between England and the US or something I have learned about said England since being here.
Peace. Merry Christmas
