A Kinder World: Back to the USA

Saturday, October 31, 2015

Back to the USA - Last Post

Sunday, Sept. 27 – We woke up very early and finished cleaning the apartment and getting things ready to go. We left and took some pictures outside,

and stopped at a little bar close to where Eric had parked. They had coffee and I walked around trying to find a place that had ensaimadas, but the only places open that early where bars, so I had to do with a croissant.

I was glad we were in that apartment in Carrer Arago because I didn’t have early memories of that part of Barcelona, so it was not as hard to leave as if we were in the Carrer Bertran apartment. But still we were sad to go.

Carrer Arago

We got to El Prat, Barcelona’s Airport, and had to go thru several lines,

and get our luggage checked.

Sonia was getting pretty emotional

so we all hugged

and thanked them again for all their help, and out we went to the Delta waiting area ready to catch our flight at 11:45AM

I slept a few hours on the flight to Atlanta, mainly because my TV was not working right and I was bored and tired. When we got to Atlanta it was past 4:00PM and had to go thru customs etc and our connecting flight was leaving at 5:25PM. I made a mistake and had the paper opener we got for Marvin in my purse (it was a sword)

so they said I had to send it as luggage. Lizzie told Sandy and me to go get to the connecting flight and she would meet us there. She took care of going to the Delta counter and explaining the situation and they said they would send it with our luggage, and then she hurried to meet us, thanks Lizzie. We were the last ones boarding on the connecting flight to LAX.

We got to Los Angeles past 7:00PM. With the change of time in Barcelona and Atlanta, we had a super long day. (The sword didn’t make it but Delta said they would send it home when it arrived).

We took a taxi and went home to La Mirada. Marvin was happy and relieved we made it back OK. Mary and Dewey greeted us and then got ready to go to Burbank. Lulu was super excited to see the girls, and I think maybe a bit happy to see me too. We were hungry and the girls went and got some In’n’Out and fries!

It felt strange to be back home but I was looking forward to sleeping in my bed!

Monday, Sept. 28 – A phone call from Delta woke me up to let me know the sword was on its way, I went outside and sure enough the little package had arrived. Marvin went out and got Polly’s cinnamon rolls for us.

We also got the portrait of my mother and Nuri and me that same morning. We couldn’t wait and opened it. It needs a lot of specialty restoring, but I’m happy it’s at home.