Back in the US of A

Boo and I made it safely back to Michigan and are currently in her apartment in Ann Arbor. Vanessa picked us up from the airport. Despite sleeping through the alarm for our 11:15 PM airport pick-up, we got to the Cairo airport with plenty of time to spare. The flight to Paris was very nice, and we actually slept pretty well. We arrived in Paris around 6:15 AM, and promptly got on the train to go into the city for a few hours of our 8 hour layover. We spent a lovely 3 hours eating croissants and pain au chocolat and walking along the River Seine. We even went to the Louvre...to use the bathroom. We did see the obelisk in the Place de la Concorde that was given from the Luxor Temple which we saw only two days earlier in Egypt. Pretty neat. Then back to the airport for a very long flight to Detroit. At least we had individual screens in each seat for movie viewing. Now we are here and tired. Tomorrow I return to Chapel Hill via Baltimore. Lots of traveling. It is indeed hard to be a Coco Laru.