Living the Dream?

So here we are, strategically positioned between the 'International Brotherhood of Teamsters' ( no I have no idea either) and the 'National Association of Letter Carriers' - an imposing old building which I suspect is housing the entire population of American carrier pigeons.  Journey here got better as we crossed the 'pond' (fortunately!) after an inauspicious start when the number plate recognition camera at Heathrow T5 long stay car park resolutely refused to recognise our number (pre-booked). Rang for assistance and after repeating the reference three times was told they couldn't find the booking. I then gave them my surname and they found it straight away, although I am quietly confident that we will be unable to escape the car park without more argy bargy. Anyway after shoe-horning the car into a space designed (I use the word loosely) for a Smart car we were duly transported to the terminal - arrivals section. This meant we had to manhandle two bikes and two bags up 5 floors, which involved trying to slalom our way through 4 sets of bollards which were not wide enough to accommodate the bikes.

On the check in, where we were asked if we had received a text about the flight. Alarm bells ringing we said 'no' and were then informed that the A380 designated for the flight was not available and the replacement aircraft took 140 fewer passengers. Luckily for us no text meant we weren't one of that privileged number. After that things got better with a slightly early arrival, no queue at customs and the bags / bikes off the plane almost before we got to baggage reclaim ( mine in fact was there waiting). Taxi in to DC, which just glided through as the roads were deserted and we were at the hotel by just after 3.00pm. Went for an initial stroll, back to cool down in the air-con and then back out to make sure we had walked at least 5k for our 365 x 5k challenge. We are staying very centrally and discovered that there is virtually nowhere to eat on a Sunday night, so we ended up in MacDonalds eating chilli chicken wraps - hence the title of the post. Finally going to bed at 9.30pm USA time, 2.30am body time - we should sleep well.