Krissy Hoadley

He spent 15 minutes on the phone going through every system he knew how to go through to see if he could find our tickets without any reservation number with only birthdates and names to go on.

And he found where Astrid was on the website, where she had put the tickets in the checkout, where she had gone through the checkout.

But for some reason, the bank never charged.

The bank was never charged for the tickets.

And so now we are days away from life.

Both of us.

Same company, same thing, probably around the same time within a week of each other.

Unbelievable.

So now we had to scramble to find tickets.

So what we ended up doing was staying an extra day in London so that we could buy cheaper tickets, essentially, right?

It was like a $500 difference if we just stayed in one extra day.

So we paid $300 for the hotel room, saved some money.

And then we went and we went around London, London, London, 88 degrees outside the day that my children got there.

The day that we had free that Saturday, it was 91 degrees.

So we walked, walked all the way over to Kensington Palace.

To Kensington fucking Palace from where we were staying near the arch.

It was like a mile and a half walk.

No, two mile walk.

It was not.

It was.