avoiding the glass cigar

back home again.

we got up a little before 4am, in order to check out and be ready for our ride to the airport at 5am for our 6:40am flight. why so early? those last-minute plans don’t really leave you with a lot of options to fly back the day after the grand prix. which is really a shame, as it would have been nice to have another day in nice. or even a half. day. un demi-jour, peut-être?.

this was especially useless as we had a four hour layover in paris at charles de gaulle.

and yes, flying in and then taxiing around the airport, i could clearly see the glass cigar of terminal 2E, which had a noticeable absence of airplanes, a large red crane in the middle, and a big hole where there shouldn’t be one, due to the collapsed 120 foot section of the terminal the day before, which killed four people. thankfully, we had flown out of and were flying back into terminal 2F, which has a distinctly different design. and no big holes. at least none where they weren’t designed to be.

i did manage to catch a sight of la tour d’eiffel in the distance as we took off.

films on the flight back: the station agent, which was really a lot of fun, and girl with a pearl earring, which was fine but didn’t really leave an impression.

i waited in the airport with hmc for an hour and a half until her flight was scheduled to leave for lost angels, and then went home. having to make sure to stay up late enough to get back on pdt, i went out to dinner with w/djbj/drmike at minako’s for yummy organic japanese food.

by the time i went to bed i had been up for 25 of the last 29 hours.

but all in all it was a fantastic trip. it’s a great place to visit, especially for (mostly) free. next time stay somewhere cheaper and for longer.

the only downside was that while i was gone, the cookies at home got stale.

Posted at May 24, 2004 11:46 PM