Welcome home."We had just endured a full day of travel, the last leg of which was a 7-hour, overnight flight from Washington/Dulles to Heathrow. Those...words, spoken in the rush of the arrival hall refreshed us and were the perfect touch. We love to travel, have been to the UK a few times, but always spent our time shuffling between cities and B&Bs, seeing and doing as much as possible in the limited amount of time a full work schedule had allowed. We had made acquaintances along the way but no. There are many Detroit-made cars scattered haphazardly about the cul-de-sac at the end of the driveway, most, having no air-conditioning, with the windows left rolled down.There are three picnic tables, and a large split 55-gallon drum barbeque trough on cinderblocks, and a few dozen adults were circulating between the kegs, the table with the wine, and the food table.There were four kids.I'm pretty sure that Chuck, the only son of our host, was off getting high in the woods someplace, and I. Then she got ready and locked the door. I hopped on my bike and we started going to my house.On the way, there was a traffic jam. Then they told me that the bridge may fall down the cause of the heavy flow of water. They were only letting one car or two bikes at a time. We waited for some time and then I felt someone grabbing on my shirt and yelling at me.I didn’t get the scene first. Then I understood it was Shehna’s uncle and he started to beat me on my helmet. She got down and asked him to. Gran finally came, and she gave me a big hug andtold me I had done a wonderful job. I turned and looked to the nextperson in line and found myself looking into the loving, happy,understanding face of my mom!"You're just beautiful, Mary. I'm glad Paula was able to find such apretty girl to be her bridesmaid!" said Mom. I was speechless. Momacted like it was the most natural thing in the world for me to bestanding there in girl's clothes. After finishing the receiving line, Isat at the kid's.