It's time to go! It's time to go!

Less than five hours after the last visiting family member said good bye and Simone finally got to rest her weary head on the pillow of the pillow on the pullout couch of her father's house in Normandy, it was time to wake up again. With the airport almost two hours away, they would need to get ready in a hurry in order to make their flight in time. Then, with the well-oiled precision of years of experience, the family got ready: shower, dressed, packed, car and gas fillup just before arriving at the airport to return their rental car. They arrived with plenty of lead time which proved useless: their plane was two hours late leaving Paris. Simone daydreamed halfheartedly of napping somewhere comfortable as they waited in the cold hard airport seats. One by one and two by two, they halfheartedly shopped in the airport stores. Then, finally, it was time to board the busses that would take them to the plane. Au revoir, Paris! Simone waved from the 'hublot'. À bientôt!