Sunday, August 15, 2010

Wednesday 11th August

Colleen and Kevin and Anne and Paul joined us for breakfast at our hotel. Colleen was again given some more things to keep at her place till we return, along with some dirty washing, that we hope will be cleanup prior to our return. After saying our goodbyes (no photos) we retired to our room and prepared for the great escape. We caught the correct
Bart train (with Ben’s assistance) and made the airport with 2 hours to spare – just enough time for all the rigmarole you have to go through. True to what has happened so far, the plane was delayed 35 minutes due to an odor in the plane – no it wasn’t me. It turned out to be a smelly case of melons in the cargo area (I think we had some of them this morning.)
Even though we were late getting away, we still only arrived about 10 minutes late – at the airport anyway. Local time 12.20 am. The baggage went missing for twenty minutes or so but we eventually got them and called the hotel to arrange the shuttle – 5 minutes away. After 35 minutes we rang again eventually after 45 minutes it arrived. When we got to the hotel we found that I had made a slight error in the booking and booked the following night. All was fixed and collapsed into bed at about 2am. Quite a day.

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