We’re at the very back of the upstairs Club World cabin on an A380, which has its good points and its bad points. The good: we could sit together and neither of us had to climb over anyone or be climbed over for aisle access, unlike almost any other seats in Club World (BA has a very weird seating arrangement). The bad: we were the last to be served dinner, so we didn’t start eating until nearly 9pm San Francisco time.

My tray table wouldn’t stay level – since there was no one in the seat next to me, the flight attendant took down that tray table and put my drinks on it. It worked wonderfully well, and I used it for my night table so I could charge my watch and still look at it when I needed to know the time.

We were finished with dinner a little after 10, which is 6am London time. I slept some, but woke up every hour, which is pretty normal for me when I try to sleep on a red eye. My most recent wake up was at noon London time; I can hear breakfast being prepared, and we’re supposed to land in a couple of hours, so I guess it’s time to get up and face the day, which will be entirely spent in the hands of British Airways.

I took a last look at the persimmon tree in our back yard before we left to drive to SFO, and it’s starting to show fruit. I wonder what it’ll look like when we get home?

Right now, we’re in the BA lounge, waiting for our flight to Heathrow. They say it’s going to be an uncrowded flight – we were the only people on the TSA PreCheck line, which is a good sign (Diane still got tagged for a “random search”, but I think it’s because they were bored).

The lounge is fairly empty, too – we’ve had more BA people actively helping us than I’ve experienced before. I asked about the Matlow candy that they have and one of the senior people found out where they source it (Nassau Candy Company) and that it was easy for civilians to order in small quantities from Wal-Mart. She said that the cherry candies vanish quickly once the lounge opened and brought me a handful to take with me!