We are FINALLY home!
And we were never pickpocketed. Woo-hoo!
Sorry that I never blogged while in Paris, we didn't have Internet access in our room and believe it or not we never found an Internet Cafe.
So, we were supposed to come home yesterday (Sunday). But we didn't actually come home until today.
We flew out of Charles de Gaulle. (That airport sucks! It is tough to navigate. I was fed up with it before we even got on our flight to London.) So we are on the way to London from Paris and there is some weird smell, so the pilots turned the plane around. Which is fine, safety is a priority. So we sit on the plane for like an hour while firefighters are looking around. They figured out that it was the AC so they had to turn that off. So it was nice and toasty. We waited for buses to pick us up.
The highlight of the fiasco for me was that I spotted an actress who frequents Lifetime movies. She was also on "Melrose Place." I looked up Rena Sofer on IMDB and she has been in a lot of other stuff, too. She is gorgeous. She has always looked gorgeous in the movies and pictures. Well, she looks that way in real life, too.
OK, that was the only good part ...
So we are finally schelped on buses. (And it was raining, too.) We have to go back through the Passport counter, then pick up our luggage and go back to ticketing to be reissued tickets. It was a mess. British Airways handled the whole thing horribly. It took forever for us to get new tickets. Our flight left at 9:40 a.m. and we had our first set of new tickets about 3:45. Yup! 3:45! We get to American to check in for our flight to New York and then we were to stay overnight and fly to San Fran in the morning. We are told we are on standby behind 10 other people. NO WAY! So I stay with the luggage and Curt goes back to tell BA that this is NOT gonna work. He got back to me and the luggage about 4:30. We had a new flight out in the morning (Monday) directly from Paris to SFO. BA gave us a voucher for a hotel and meals. There were about 20 other people at that hotel from our London flight, too.
I haven't mentioned yet that we won't be flying BA EVER AGAIN! And Curt missed a day of work. I had taken today off to get things done and to get rested up for work again.
So we slept well and had a good dinner and breakfast and headed to the airport. We flew Air France home--and they were great. They were so organized. We had the 2 middle seats, but hey we had seats!
So I will post pics soon and write about all our fun in Paris.
Glad to be home.
Sorry that I never blogged while in Paris, we didn't have Internet access in our room and believe it or not we never found an Internet Cafe.
So, we were supposed to come home yesterday (Sunday). But we didn't actually come home until today.
We flew out of Charles de Gaulle. (That airport sucks! It is tough to navigate. I was fed up with it before we even got on our flight to London.) So we are on the way to London from Paris and there is some weird smell, so the pilots turned the plane around. Which is fine, safety is a priority. So we sit on the plane for like an hour while firefighters are looking around. They figured out that it was the AC so they had to turn that off. So it was nice and toasty. We waited for buses to pick us up.
The highlight of the fiasco for me was that I spotted an actress who frequents Lifetime movies. She was also on "Melrose Place." I looked up Rena Sofer on IMDB and she has been in a lot of other stuff, too. She is gorgeous. She has always looked gorgeous in the movies and pictures. Well, she looks that way in real life, too.
OK, that was the only good part ...
So we are finally schelped on buses. (And it was raining, too.) We have to go back through the Passport counter, then pick up our luggage and go back to ticketing to be reissued tickets. It was a mess. British Airways handled the whole thing horribly. It took forever for us to get new tickets. Our flight left at 9:40 a.m. and we had our first set of new tickets about 3:45. Yup! 3:45! We get to American to check in for our flight to New York and then we were to stay overnight and fly to San Fran in the morning. We are told we are on standby behind 10 other people. NO WAY! So I stay with the luggage and Curt goes back to tell BA that this is NOT gonna work. He got back to me and the luggage about 4:30. We had a new flight out in the morning (Monday) directly from Paris to SFO. BA gave us a voucher for a hotel and meals. There were about 20 other people at that hotel from our London flight, too.
I haven't mentioned yet that we won't be flying BA EVER AGAIN! And Curt missed a day of work. I had taken today off to get things done and to get rested up for work again.
So we slept well and had a good dinner and breakfast and headed to the airport. We flew Air France home--and they were great. They were so organized. We had the 2 middle seats, but hey we had seats!
So I will post pics soon and write about all our fun in Paris.
Glad to be home.
3 Comments:
I'm glad that you are home safe and sound. I can't wait to hear about your non-airplane adventures!
Rena Sofer was Bonnie Hane on "Ed," and I always wanted her to end up with him. Or at least have him end up with anyone but icky, fickle Carol. Blech!
Yea, when I was looking at her profile I saw that and remembered her on "Ed."
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