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HI am sitting in the United airport lounge waiting for our flight home. The hotel booked a taxi for us, a limousine really, to go to the airport. Dave goes over to help Anne get her luggage to our hotel. Since it is Sunday morning, we aren't sure how early the trains to Heathrow start anyway. It cost 72 pounds but worth it for the time and energy and stress it saves us. Hotel said 62 pounds but we were perhaps charged for,luggage and people. The young man driver was dressed in a suit and the car was a small SUV type vehicle, clean and comfortable. We are at Heathrow in a half hour. Funny to see so little traffic on the roads. It would have taken much longer on a week day. We are in the brand new Terminal 2 at Heathrow. What a place this is! It is vast and enormous, all high tech, spacious and comfortable. It has the longest escalators and moving walkways I think I have ever seen. We pass an enclosed children's play area which appears to be supervised by a couple of young women. Food places appear to serve quick but healthy options. All the latest equipment is used at the security checkpoint. The United lounge is large and light with the space divided up into different types of seating areas.  It has a large bar and a full breakfast. 

I will write my last post for this blog. It has been a wonderful trip and a good respite from any troubles and worries in my life. I am so appreciative of having the means and health to do this. One small regret is not doing any sketching but it just didn't work out when I was with Dave and Anne. Not sure where one would station oneself to sketch on these busy streets, but there were plenty of interesting subjects in quieter venues, too. I imagined in my mind what I would draw as we walked along. The Sketchbook Skool classes have made me see things in a new way so even though I wasn't actually drawing, I think my experience was changed and enhanced by this new way of seeing.

I will end this blog by posting a picture of Anne and me, and one of Anne and Dave, that I particularly like.