WE ARE HOME!

At 8:00am this morning we bid “au revoir” to our friend Jacqueline at the Hotel Muguet. It was a wonderful place to stay and we highly recommend it to anyone visiting Paris.

Our experiences at the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris have been interesting; little signage, poor communication and much disorganization at the gate...makes us appreciate the Newark and Rochester Airports. Our flight to Newark was uneventful; however, I was stopped in customs for carrying “suspicious mustard” - three small jars I had bought in the Paris Airport. After a thorough check, I was allowed to pass. In addition, we didn’t realize (until we left customs) that we had to pick up our luggage in the customs area and re-check it through to Rochester. When we tried to go back to get it, we were told we couldn’t and that our luggage would catch up to us in a couple of days. (Note: Jana says to say that she hates Newark, although this should not come as a surprise to anyone who knows her.) I took advantage of the girls’ luggage worries and beat them for the first time in a game of BS on the floor of the Newark Airport! I also finished the new Harry Potter book on the plane and have handed it over to Adam.

So....no luggage when we arrived in Rochester, but the good news is that they are delivering it to us tomorrow (which means no unpacking or starting laundry tonight!) Chelsea’s Grandma Sandi picked us up at the airport and we had a relaxing ride home as we re-lived some of the highlights of our trip.

Our watches say 7:00pm, however our body clocks think it’s 1:00am, so it’s time to say thanks for sharing our journey with us and good night!