Saturday, September 26, Going Home!

We got up early this morning in Barcelona to endure a very long day.  We got to breakfast at 7am and then checked out at 7:30am.  Out first flight was back to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, which was uneventful.  Then we had to hustle through the airport to get to another terminal (involving a long wait to ride a bus between terminals), plus another passport control, but fortunately not another security screening.  The flight from Paris to LAX was very nice.  The plane did not have separate business and first class, so it is possible that we may have flown international first class.  Our seats were the best we're ever had on any flight.  Here is Rob in his:

The seats lie flat and we both took advantage of this by sleeping about four hours on the plane.

Landing in LAX, we had a lengthy time in immigration.  First you had to stand in a very long line to access a kiosk that took our pictures, then another line to turn in the pictures, then a third line for some reason.  The whole process took an hour!  Then, we had a few hours to kill in the lounge, but the time passed faster than we anticipated, and soon enough we were flying home.

We had no trouble getting our baggage in SFO, and our limousine picked us up at 9:30pm or so, delivering us to our door at about 10:40pm.  We had about 24 hours of travel to get home, and when we got in the door, we brushed our teeth and went straight to bed.  We were utterly exhausted and happy to be home!