Day 8, Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - Day of return

All good things must come to an and and today we return home. We have been blessed with perfect weather all 8 days, with blue skies, bright sunshine and warm temperatures.

People have been having to pack up and get ready to leave starting at 3:30am depending on the departure time.

We changed the default return flight picked by Viking to a later flight so we wouldn't have to leave so early. (It would be nice if there was a choice at the time so we didn't have to pay the ticket change fees).

Everything had to be packed up and out of the room by 9am but we didn't have to leave for the airport until 11am so we had some time to walk around Lyon before departing. We walked across the bridge over the Rhone, up the other side and then back.

Last morning walk

We left for the airport at 11am, a 20 minute drive to the Lyon airport. It was quite a walk through the train station and through the terminal to our gate. Our flight to Paris left at 1:30pm so we had time for a lunch although there weren't many lunch options by the gate.

Our flight arrived in Paris at 2:30 so we had 2 1/2 hours before our 5pm flight to NY. Our flight was a little late departing but we still arrived close to the scheduled arrival at 7:15pm. It took about an hour to get out of the plane and through immigration and customs. We took a taxi from JFK back to Brooklyn.

I stayed overnight at Amy's apartment. I woke up very early (not surprising) so got a car service a little after 6am and was able to get a 7:30am bus to Kingston where our friend Sue Cocozza picked me up and brought me home. Whew!