After a very good night’s sleep and a long slow start to the day we went out shopping for last minute stuff. Yuck. We’re right by the Outlet Mall so that’s where we headed. Breakfast at Dunkin Doughnuts and then Joe was happy to shop until I dropped. But we got it all done. And this evening we checked in. Keeping an eye on the flight information as it looks like other flights to London have been cancelled. Tonight’s flight should have gone at 2020 but looks like it won’t take off until gone 10 unless they cancel it. That would be funny – snowed in where there is no snow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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