Well the day finally arrived – saw in 1:45 then myst have crashed. Luckily the alarm went off at 4:30. No time to waste got a taxi (yes! It arrived) and off to the Gare for the 5:40 train to Paris Charles de Gaulle aeroport. Arrived at 8:30 then watched carefully where I went so I could get back! Yes you have to catch a mini train between terminals and you need to read carefully to know where you need to go. Very easy to get lost! Not that many people around, spent the next 5 hours looking at shops and reading a book - found an English one!
Text from the family to say they have been delayed at Frankfurt- another 30 mins. By 2:15pm I was first at the arrivals gate waiting anxiously….. 2:30 they appeared. What a fantastic sight –very overwhelming and indescribable. Suddenly felt whole again and that nothing was missing!We trotted off to wait for the next 5 hours till the train! The poor things did well but it didn’t take long before the sleep bug took over. Nev got about 1 hour on the plane as Seph was pretty staunch and didn’t sleep much but such a fidgit gadget kept waking him! Flight to LA was 12 hours and bumpy! Hermione slept a bit in between watching movies in the personalised in flight entertainment. LA was hot 30 odd degrees and they had to get baggage and drop it off after customs – even for transit – very security conscious! The next flight Lufthansa was 11 hours of nothing – no personal inflight entertainment. Very small seats! Girls only slept for 2 hours before waking for tea. Then no more Seph was not tired.
Once in Frankfurt had 2 hours before next flight to Paris. All you have to do is go through passport control. Nev astoionded at Paris, like I was, you get your bags and walk straight out. No officials anywhere. No customs, dutyfree, zip, nada nothing.
Sleep took over while waiting for the train, amazingly Hermione seemed to sleep anywhere. Seph still showed not much sign of sleeping and kept going up and down escalators while the other 2 slept!
Woke up and went to get tea – Hermione straight back to sleep at table and can’t even remember being there or that we had woken her to eat tea – which she didn’t eat! Then before long Seph’s eyes rolled back in her head and I was sitting alone with 3 sleeping beauties.
Finally the train arrived –TGV, you have 3 minutes to get on and we had 12 bags! 5 big suitcases and backpacks etc.. We got great seats in a 4 with a table inbetween, very comfy compared to the plane. Hermione and Seph slept the whole way –Nev a bit, then revived and walked down to the booze carriage for a celebratory wine and beer.
11:00pm Thursday evening – we arrived. Had to get 2 taxis, 1 got lost with Nev and girls in it. Luckily he rang me and I got my taxi driver to tell the other where to go!
Luggage all in, got sorted and all in bed pretty quick.
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