Flight 891, Atlantic Ocean
1342 EET
Well with the firmness of the bed, I did feel as I slept well and woke well before the alarm time of 0700. We are not sure, but about that time, we started haring something that I identified as a cat, very loud and continuous. But I greatly enjoyed my hot shower and ate my breakfast orange while Mom had her shower. Organizing the last of our things, we departed and wile I waited outside the building Mom went up the three flights of stairs to Casa di Rosy for the receipt. When she returned with croissants, she did not have the receipt because the receptionist had dropped the laptop before board the lift that morning. So, onto Roma Termini and the Leonardo Express we went.
Boarding at 0826 we had an engaging conversation with our seat mate, Susan, who was finishing up two months in Italia with two weeks spent making and binding books. The entire experience sounded wonderful and she passed the information onto me so I am quite looking forward to looking into it.
It was very fortunate that we had elected to take such an early Leonardo Express, as the check-in line wait was horrendous, at least an hour wait—which passed okay as we talked with a BC couple in line. Check-in done, there was a line for security as well, but we went through quickly and my passport was finally stamped! As we cleared at 1030 and boarded at 1050 there was no time to shop duty free as we’d planned and very regretfully, no time to buy me books to read for this return flight. From our gate we caught a shuttle to our airplane, where I joined in a conversation about Shopaholic series and discovered the mother of the daughter with the book in question is E.W. of London, Ontario and a Millennium expert. So we got talking business, which I plan on addressing the code issue when I return to work.
Once on Flight 891, my seat is window once again although it is pretty much over the wing, our time to Toronto was announced as nine hours, four minutes, cursing altitude of 32,000 feet.
So that ends my journal entries, but it is not the end of the blog yet. I still have to finish the day in question after all, even if it is via introspection and memory recreation months later!
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