Home in the US of A!!!

Our friends Annette and Roger took us to the train to see us off Tuesday afternoon from Issodun about 30 minutes drive north of Lignieres. Amidst tears, hugs and waves we boarded the SNCF 2nd Class coach with our 4 bags and 2 cats, Kelly's backpack, a bag of sandwiches and junk food, a bottle of Alsasian Reisling and 6 cheap French beers. We arrived about 5:30 pm in Sacramento after many long and arduous hours aboard the 2 UAL flights. The first was out of good ol' Chuck De Gaule's airport NE of Paris after a nights stay in the ETAP at Paris 2 in Roissy. Our room 305 had a great airshow of the landings at CDG 08R runway. One after another from the time we entered our room until about 10pm, every 2 or 3 minutes another aircraft would passover directly into our view towards the distant CDG. It was spectacular. Here's a photo.
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Then night fell and we soon collapsed in a heap on the bed, the cats having found themselves under the blanket and hiding on the upper bunk (it's an ETAP). Off to sleep to fly away tomorrow.
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In the morning I woke up before dawn to a glowing red sky and new airplanes just arriving flying into the rising sun. Spectacular!
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The balance of the time was a rush, breakfast downstairs, pack the cats, shower, dress and off to CDG we went. Onto the shuttle to everywhere but where we wanted to go...Terminal One. The driver said "No Problem" when I asked him when we would arrive at terminal one as I became worried about the 2 hr International wait time they demand these days. He dropped us off some distance from the number 2 terminal amid dense traffic and told us "downstairs". So down we went. lugging our bags and the cats before and behind us. Then to a tram that fairly flew underground, overground et al. to the basement of Terminal One. It took us 1.5 hrs to transit from the ETAP to the terminal of our desires. Not bad.