This morning, I once again found myself waking up bright and early after far too little sleep to drag myself and my suitcase on the 15 minute walk to the bus stop to head to the airport. It was still dark as I left the dorm and began my trek to Charles de Gaulle, this time I didn't have another country as my destination, I was headed to meet Uncle Mike, Nikki, and Taylor at the airport and planned to spend the weekend in Paris with them!
The bus ride went extremely well, despite all those flag stops we stopped at along the way and I made it to the airport in just over an hour, enjoying a nice little nap along the way. As I entered the terminal I navigated my way through the crowded airport to the arrivals board to find out where I should go to meet my visitors, it looked like I had arrived in perfect time to get make my way down terminal 2C from where the bus dropped me off at to 2A where my family would be arriving after getting their luggage and making their way through customs.
However, I did not plan to be stopped by several VERY intimidating army men (and one woman) with big scary machine guns telling myself and anyone else who tried to enter the hall between terminals C and B that we had to wait. There was no clear reason as to why the hallway was closed for those twenty minutes or so, but after waiting as patiently as I could until they finally allowed us to make our way down the hallway. I guess I should be happy to see heightened security in Paris considering the travel alerts that have been issued, but I was not a very happy camper when I had to wait to go see my family, especially when I had no way of contacting them to let them know what the hold up was.
When I finally made it to terminal 2A, I saw two brunettes who looked quite familiar and headed their way. As I walked up I realized that it was not just Nikki and Taylor standing amid all the luggage they had, but someone else was with them... MY MOM! Words cannot describe how excited I was to see each of them and how shocked I was to see my mom standing in Paris, France when I didn't think I'd see her for another 2 1/2 months! We rounded up their bags and waited for Uncle Mike who had gone to look for me (told you it took me forever to get to them) and headed out to find a cab. The original plan was to take the RER, but after seeing the size of my mom's suitcase and not knowing exactly where our apartment was I thought it might just be easier to go the cab route.
I'm still shocked that everyone kept my mom coming a secret from me, well done. I'm surprised that so many of you knew and never accidentally let anything slip! And thank you so much Uncle Mike, it was the best surprise you could have ever given my mom or me!
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