As We Live, So We Learn: Let's Start at the Very Beginning

The flight wasn't bad and a short 9 hours later we were across the pond with our whole trip ahead of us! The one downer? While waiting for our luggage at the baggage claim out came mom's, we waited, waited, and waited some more and my bag never arrived. We went to file a claim and the bag ... We stopped by this adorable high end shopping mall, filled with wooded store fronts, security guards called "beetles" (who make the experience seem like a movie or Disneyland). ...