Our last dining experience in Nice was at 6 a.m. on the top level of our hotel where we got to see the huge moon followed by the beginning glimmer of sunrise before setting out for the airport.
We made it through the Spanish Inquisition at the airport. Since we were flying into New York, it was crazy that amount of security we had to pass through. The first line of defence was a guard who questioned us about who owned our luggage, who packed it, who transported it, who gave us stuff to put in it, who carried it down the stairs, who put it on the bus, who took it off the bus - it was crazy - she didn't just ask, "Did you ever let this luggage out of your sight?". There were different people to scan and scrutinize our passports and our boarding passes. Only one student had overweight luggage and had to transfer some stuff to another bag.
It was looking like we were going to clear the carry-on security without an issue until one student tried to get through with two jars of jam and one teacher had a knife in her carry-on! When they found the knife I had a moment of panic because I had no idea why I would have a metal knife in my carry-on and I was desperately hoping they were mistaking something else. As they pulled my aside and asked me to open my luggage, I was denying that it was a knife until I remembered having a knife the day before during lunch - I had LEFT it in the bag - I am going to attribute it to lack of sleep! Thankfully the security guard laughed at me and what must have been my genuinely flustered state! We made it without further incident to New York. At JFK we had to pick up our luggage and re-check it before transferring flights. They must have been scrutinizing every bag again because it took over an hour to get all of our checked bags! Even though we went from the plane to the the luggage claim to security, we had to go through the whole security process again! Some students got patted down and a few got their hands swabbed to test for explosives! I swear, New York has got to be the MOST paranoid city in the world!
After a few hours of down time, we had a quick flight to Detroit, got our luggage within a matter of minutes and then spent the next hours and a half trying to find our bus.
It turns out the driver was late as it was and then was held up at the border. He had driven from Toronto, had no idea where Strathroy was and couldn't use his GPS because it was so overcast he wasn't getting a signal. We ended up taking the long way home via Windsor and the backroads from Iona Station but eventually we arrived safe, sound and exhausted to SDCI where the parents were waiting to take their darlings off our hands!
My body has no idea what time of day it is and all I really want to do is sleep BUT if I don't want to go to school naked tomorrow, I need to get some laundry done! And, we need to head out and pick up electronics to replace the ones that Eric and I managed to fry while abroad - funny that NO ONE else but the two of us had issues!
Until we travel again......Greece 2013 maybe?
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