Beautiful sunrise & clouds in Bordeaux and beautiful sunset in Portland with the temperature at 95º
We got into Bourdeaux in plenty of time. And Thierry helped us in the terminal to make sure we got in the correct lines and got everything checked in before he headed home. His plan: go back to bed. The terminal in Bordeaux is much smaller and is very low key which is nice compared to the other airports we’ve been in. Our flight was at 7:15 am so we watched the sunrise which was spectacular.
Then it was on to Frankfurt where we went through a inspection where they took away our pate. We probably would have been fine if we hadn’t declared it but we were paranoid that we would get in trouble if they found it. We had brought 4 bottles of wine for the kids which was our limit and had declared that which wasn’t a problem. They explained that if the pate had been a bird pate it would have been fine but it was pork pate. So off it went into a trash bin, which Wes was sure they split up at the end of their shifts.
We didn’t have as much of a layover so after we got through the long lines we just looked around in the gift shops until our next leg of the flight which was into Denver. This was the longest part of the flight but we had our own monitors in the back of the seats. So we could watch any movie we wanted. There was about 15 different choices and naturally mine was broken. It would play the movie but it was so pixilated you couldn’t make it out. It took almost 4 hours to watch one movie which was ‘The Bucket List’ The attendants were finally able to fix it after 3 attempts and 3 hours. So I watched several movies which kept me awake.
The Denver airport was new to us and was it every great to hear so much English being spoken. Finally the last leg of our trip and I was so tired that I slept right through the takeoff. I closed my eyes for a few moments while everyone was getting seated. And was very confused when I heard the attendant taking orders for soft drinks or juice. I couldn’t figure out why she was doing that before we had even left the ground. I was surprised when I found we’d been in the air for over an hour. We had left at 7:15 am and we got home at 8 pm. But there was also a 9 hour time difference so we had been traveling for 21 hours. Previously I had never been able to sleep on a plane. That sure can change given the circumstances.
As we flew into Portland we saw something we’ve never seen before. The sun was setting, there were a few clouds and the view of Mt Hood and all the other mountains in the range was incredible. Every other time we've flown the cloud cover kept Mt Hood obscured.
So concludes our trip of a lifetime.
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