This day came sooner than we thought - once the shippers came and took away most of the stuff, we wanted to get out as soon as possible. It was hard to manage with minimal items and things we were used to all along...
Flight out was at 1:30pm and we had planned to head out to airport by 10am. We had the rental van to return and then take the shuttle train to the airport, which would need some extra time. Also, there is a chance that at the airport counter, they may check closely and may ask us to reduce the weight. We had arranged to return all the keys day before to the owner so that we don't need to wait on them in the morning. All we needed was to close the garage door, pull the door and head out! It was bit tough to decide on what to throw and the garbage bins were full at the complex - previous day being Saturday, bins were not cleared and things had piled up. Another lesson here --- keep dumping what you don't need over few days. If you keep everything to last minute, you run into strange problems like this!!!
We were done with final packing of suite cases by 10am, loading and doing the final checks took bit more time we headed out by 10:30am. It was again a strange feeling driving over the streets on which we drove everyday - to drop kids, to work, to friend's place etc, which we may not visit again (at least in the near future). Reach to the airport, unloading and getting to shuttle everything went smoothly. We were at the counter by 11am, still a good time away from the 1:30pm flight.
We knew some of the the suite cases would be off balance by few pounds. Made sure to load the smaller ones first on the weigh counter - so that the counter person knows that we haven't overloaded everything and overall we are well within the limits. Did see one or two over the limit by few pounds but she didn't complain. (have seen one of the friends struggling before where the counter lady checked even the cabin bags and complained over those being over-weight once they saw that all of the suitcases were overloaded). Our cabin bags were slightly overweight but she didn't seem to mind since we were 4 of us and over all weight would have been still with the limits - but, don't count your luck here, it all depends on the counter person, I guess.
It didn't feel very strange when the flight took off - it felt like the regular Indian vacation where we head out and be back in a month! Now the US part was over, it was time to think about how we are going to handle things once we land in India. I should say it was hectic for last 2 months or so and there was a bit of time to sit back and relax on the flight knowing there is not much we could sitting here ...
We were done with final packing of suite cases by 10am, loading and doing the final checks took bit more time we headed out by 10:30am. It was again a strange feeling driving over the streets on which we drove everyday - to drop kids, to work, to friend's place etc, which we may not visit again (at least in the near future). Reach to the airport, unloading and getting to shuttle everything went smoothly. We were at the counter by 11am, still a good time away from the 1:30pm flight.
We knew some of the the suite cases would be off balance by few pounds. Made sure to load the smaller ones first on the weigh counter - so that the counter person knows that we haven't overloaded everything and overall we are well within the limits. Did see one or two over the limit by few pounds but she didn't complain. (have seen one of the friends struggling before where the counter lady checked even the cabin bags and complained over those being over-weight once they saw that all of the suitcases were overloaded). Our cabin bags were slightly overweight but she didn't seem to mind since we were 4 of us and over all weight would have been still with the limits - but, don't count your luck here, it all depends on the counter person, I guess.
It didn't feel very strange when the flight took off - it felt like the regular Indian vacation where we head out and be back in a month! Now the US part was over, it was time to think about how we are going to handle things once we land in India. I should say it was hectic for last 2 months or so and there was a bit of time to sit back and relax on the flight knowing there is not much we could sitting here ...
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