Glasgow to Seattle

Philadelphia, Wednesday afternoon.
James, Davie and I are on our holiday! I am writing this at our transfer airport, Philadelphia, but I won't be able to publish it until we get to Seattle so the time and date will be awry. All has gone smoothly so far. I decided not to watch the films on offer during the flight because I watched films and Friends DVDs during the long journey from Dover on Monday. Instead I finished my current book "The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed out of the Window and Disappeared" I thoroughly enjoyed it, it's very amusing and a bit weird and Swedish, like a comic Wallander. I then started my next book, "Moranthology" by Caitlin Moran. What luxury to be able to read for so long uninterrupted.
Seattle 9 p.m. on Wednesday local time (5 a.m. on Thursday Scottish time!)
Ha! I spoke too soon regarding all going smoothly. We transferred onto our Seattle bound flight only for it to spend nearly two hours on the tarmac waiting for a school party of 35 children who were delayed on another flight. Now I (of course) am sympathetic to school groups! However we were getting tired by this time, the flight was five hours, and by the time we got to Seattle it was twenty-one hours since we had left home. The flight itself was fine; we were sitting beside a really interesting man who was telling me about computational linguistics. He used to work for a firm whose only customer was the NSA and they designed software which could pick up all the phonetics of different languages using unicode, and look for patterns of words. It was fascinating. I also finished "Moranthology" and started on Hilary Mantel's "Bring up the Bodies".
So now we are in a very nice hotel room in Seattle and I'm planning to be asleep in about 5 minutes, I'm exhausted!