Caitlin and I got up at 6 and made it to the bus stop outside the Angel station by 6:40 to catch the bus to Victoria station. We took the Gatwick Express from Victoria back to Gatwick Airport.

At the airport, we discovered that British security is one of the best in the world. You do the usual scan-of-the-bags, followed by a pat down, and concluded with a separate scanning of your shoes. We got through without complications, luckily. We got breakfast, waiting for them to display our gate on the monitors. Once it was up, we booked it to the gate and made it with time to spare.

The flight back was just as short as the flight to England. We had to wait in a long line for getting back into Ireland thanks to the fact that we are not EU passport holders. Once we got to the counter, we were through in seconds. It was okay, though, because we would have to wait for our Aircoach to Greystones anyway.

We made it back to Greystones by 1:00 p.m. I didn’t even go in and say hi to the few people who had stayed for the weekend; I went straight upstairs for a shower. Elise caught me before I could get to the bathroom and gave me a huge hug. (She had stayed in Greystones, but her dad had come to visit.) I got a shower, and it was definitely in my top 5 best showers ever! I think I washed half of London off of me. I have never been happier to be clean.

It’s great to be back with everyone…well, the 17 that are here; four girls are still in Scotland. Tonight everyone was working on writing their newspaper article analyses that are due tomorrow. I did them before I left for London because I didn’t want to have to do them tonight. And I’m very glad I did.