Back in the UK!

After 18 hours of travel, I finally made it back to Edinburgh yesterday. I left from Phoenix to Atlanta at 7.15am and arrived into Atlanta's airport after 3 hours of air travel. I was surprised that the airport did not smell of the pungent vomit-smell that I had initially smelled the previous time I was in Atlanta. In Atlanta, I spent the next 4 hours (my layover) studying in Gate E14. Yes, I know, sounds fantabulously exciting, doesn't it? I finally left Atlanta and headed to Paris CDG airport. I began my 9 hour flight at about 5.50pm Atlanta's time. I spent 9 hours of watching movies and sleeping. I did not bother studying because I figured I would either fall asleep or get frustrated with the little room I had to put things. I arrived to Paris after the long flight and proceeded through the security check point to which I was frisked by security twice because I beeped going through the metal detectors. I'm assuming it was my button on my jeans because I had nothing else on me. I then was called back through the metal detector to remove my camera from my backpack. I thought you only had to remove laptops? For some reason, the lady made me remove my digital camera and put it on the belt separately. I had to walk through the metal detector again to get back through and of course, I beeped again. The same guy frisked me again. I was thinking, "Really? This guy just checked me not more than a minute ago and he is checking me again?". I had no problems with it, I just laughed inside. Then a lady had to check my backpack after it went through the machine. Wow, after about 15-20 minutes through security, I was finally able to walk over to my gate. There were so many leaks on the airport ceiling! They had buckets everywhere collecting the water. It was pouring outside too! I sat in the airport and waited for my flight. After 2 hours, I was able to check in and head to the plane. At first, I thought that we were going straight to the plane. However, they put us all on a bus and we drove around the airport for 15 minutes before getting to the plane. I think the plane was on the other end of the airport! Crazy! After 1.5 hours on this flight, I was finally in Edinburgh where Kristen met me at the exit! We were extremely excited to see each other! We got onto the bus and headed to the city center where we had lunch at subway and then Kristen left on a train to go to her university and study. We both have our exams tomorrow at the same exact time. Wish us both luck! Well, I should get back to studying here. Hope everyone is doing well and that the weather is nicer than Edinburgh's!