Southport Debut

The arrival of Avery in Southport, England has been anticipated by many Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and beyond. After a morning of travel we made it. We left the flat at 6:30am this morning and hopped a bus to the Old Street Tube station. When we ride the bus we stand in the handicap area of the bus to fit the stroller. Just as our stop was approaching Josh hit the handicap stop request button with the thought that maybe this would let the driver know that the bus should kneel for us. Just as we heard the ding from the stop request the bus completely shut down! The lights turned off, the engine turned off, everything turned off. We looked at each other in horror wondering, did that button do that or was it just a coincidence? We had to exit the bus from the front and two men had to hold open each side of the doors as they kept automatically shutting. We still don't know what caused the bus to shut down but we weren't about to stick around to find out. I don't think we will be using that button in the future.
We took the tube two stops to St. Pancras, Kings Cross station to pick up the National Rail.

Avery at St. Pancras

From there we took the East Midlands line from London to Shefield. This train was fairly quick and we had a 4 seat area with a table to ourselves. The train arrived late into Shefield and we quickly hopped on our next train. At least what we thought was our next train. After a few stops we figured out that we missed the express train that we were scheduled for and we were on a local train that was making many stops. The train was only two cars long and reved it's engine every time we took off from a stop. This train ended up being pack, people even lined the center isle. Apparently there was a soccer game(or football...pending what country you are reading this from!) in Manchester that was drawing a big crowd. Although the train was slow it was actually beautiful countryside and quite relaxing. Our last train from Manchester to Southport went off without a hitch.
Avery has arrived in Southport! I think I hear all the women running out of their houses to meet her!