I'm Coming Home

So we left Tania's apartment at 12am. To get to the metro and arrive at the airport usually took us 30 minutes. But tonight we had 3 pieces of luggage each. I think I was pulling around 100 lbs throughout the streets of Madrid. I never realized how many flight of stairs there was in the metro. We kept having to take breaks because we were all out of breath and so tired. I had to keep telling myself "Im coming home". That was all the motivation I needed. also Anna kept telling us "come on girls we can do it". We stubbled over stairs and ran out of energy at some points but we made it to the metro that would be taking us to the airport. The metro was empty except for one man that sat next to me. We arrived to the next stop of our metro, paced ourselves really well and boarded the train. Finally we made it to the airport. Everything was closed and only a few people lingered for their next flight. It took us 1 1/2 hour to get the the airport. Crazy how long it took us and how much strength was involved but we saved ourselves 40 euros. Our friends Monica and Rosa arrived a short time later in their taxi. We got some seats and waited for 3 hours till the airport clerks arrived. We took turns sleeping then all headed to our line. I got everyones passport and printed off their boarding pass while they waited in line. We all got cleared to head to our terminal. At the terminal we kept saying how proud we were to be Americans and how excited we were to go back home. Our first flight was to London. When we landed in London we had to run to our next gate because it was boarding. They stopped us and said we needed to get our bags checked. The clerks then realized our gate was closing so they cleared us and we made our way to our gate. We were the last ones to board our flight to Dallas.  I took my nausea medicine and knocked out for most of the flight. I told the girls that the flight didn't seem so long. They did not have the same feeling. They said the flight took forever. I guess the medicine knocked me out pretty good. When we landed I was so anxious to see my family. We went through customs with out any problems. As I walked out my friend Anna said "look there goes Ralph". He had roses in his hands ready to welcome me home. My mom was next to him with a bundle of balloons. I held back my tears of happiness. I was happy to finally be back home!

I made it to the airport