Ok, so we get up and get ready to go meet the gang for breakfast. I take a few minutes to check our flight again online and once again, it says “delayed.” I tried to find out what was up online and couldn’t find out anything. The Charles de Gaulle airport site said that the flight was on time, so I was holding on to hope that maybe the American site was incorrect. Went ahead to breakfast and said our goodbyes to everyone, finished packing up and checked out of the hotel. Stayed in the lobby checking online again and now found an email had just been sent to me saying our flight was now cancelled! To make a long story a tad shorter, the front desk lady at the hotel helped us get a call into American Airlines and after being on hold for over half an hour (Gary on phone, me searching flights online for possibilities), we got ourselves on a flight to Boston, arriving at 3:35 PM, staying overnight, and then flying into Reagan Monday. We figured if we had to stay overnight somewhere, better to spend the night at Kim’s than in an airport somewhere or another night in Paris, still having to get ourselves out of France the next day. I had sent an email when the flight got cancelled to three people, hoping that at least one would call dad and tell him to not go pick us up and to await further instructions. We had to then cancel our shuttle, grab a cab immediately because it was already two hours before the flight left and we were somewhere between a half hour and an hour from the airport! No time to email anyone about the new plan! The cab driver got us there pretty quick (spoke NO English), but dropped us off about as far from American Airlines as he could have. Nice! We RAN through Charles de Gaulle airport, and got through security and to the gate right at the last minute! I managed to work up a nice sweat running through the airport. No time to figure out how to get online or search out a phone card to call anyone. I think that Gary and I could do the Amazing Race show now. I felt like I was on the show when we were in that cab trying to talk to that driver, who didn’t understand us, nor we him, and then having him drop us off about 20 miles from the American terminal! Ugh!
Managed to make it onto the plane and headed to Boston. Called Kim from the plane as soon as we landed to inform her that it was her lucky day! She was on her way to Target, so she picked us up at the airport while she was out. We had a nice impromptu visit with the Huang family and had some food from California Pizza Kitchen. Gary, Brady and Dillon played ball outside while Kim and I went for the food. Harry was basking in the glory of the Ravens defeat by the Patriots. Finally hit the sack at about 9:30 (which felt to us like 3:30 AM since we were still on Paris time), but then we were awake at 3 AM! Managed to fall back asleep though and had pancakes in the morning with Kim and the boys before heading off to the airport for our flight to DC. No delays with this flight, so smooth sailing as we make our way back to Conowingo.
Made it to DC about 11:45 and Dad was there waiting to pick us up. Stopped by the post office and got a stack of mail about 2 feet high and then went to Sue's for a late lunch and my first iced tea in almost a month. Paula met us there and we had a nice lunch. Then, stopped by Benjamins' Store for some milk and bread and to chit chat with Dot and Debbie and then finally home at last.
It was a wonderful trip and I think the same group should start working on another tour for next summer or fall, possibly throughout the states this time, with maybe a brief foray into Canada!
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