Day 43: Home again!

Today we woke up around 4:15 am. I made wraps for our flight and we all finished packing up our bags. My cousin and his wife woke up around 4:45 am and got ready to take us to the airport.
A train runs from their house to Gatwick Airport (south of London), but the early morning train cost over $100 per person! Some trains in the evening cost less than $20, however that didn't help us out much. My cousin and his wife very kindly agreed to drive us 3 hours to the airport even though we had to leave super early in the morning.
We left around 5:4 0am and got to the airport about 3 hours later. Our flight was scheduled to depart at 10:10 am, so we had time only for a very quick picture and goodbye. We got our boarding passes and went quickly through security. Although it was only 9:05 am, we rushed to our gate because boarding began at 8:50 am. We didn't stop to drop off our VAT reimbursement paperwork because we didn't want to miss the flight. Luckily we didn't buy much, so there was no real loss skipping this. The boys joined the queue for boarding and I went stood in another line for bottled water.
I don't know why they started boarding so early, but there were definitely people arriving in the line after us. We all made it through and onto the plane. We departed on time and began the flight home. I did my best to sleep for the first few hours to try and sync to Florida time. The boys watched movies on the in-flight entertainment system or on their iPods. I woke up and watched The Orient Express, which I had been wanting to watch. It was very good. I listened to an audiobook the rest of the way and dozed sporadically. The flight went well and we were quite comfortable on the Dreamliner.
We used the customs and border patrol app to breeze through the first set of customs desks at Ft. Lauderdale Airport. Since we had no checked bags to pick up, we were the first ones through the second set of customs desks. John picked us up and we headed to get falafel because John hadn't eaten.
We had a four-hour drive home. We saw rain over the Everglades. The boys told John lots of things about our trip. One thing we all found hilarious was recounting how the knife store in Mora, Sweden didn't have signs or age limits about touching the knives in the store, just lots and lots of bandaids attached to all of the price signs.
We were very grateful to get home and way too tired to unpack our bags. We had been traveling for about 20 hours and were ready for bed.
This trip has been amazing. We are glad to be home, but I think we could have kept on traveling if we had the option :)
Thanks to everyone for hosting us, hanging out with us, and reading and commenting on the blog and armchair traveling with us!!