The Great Trip, The End

Thursday, September 24

This morning Chrissy went to check her e-mail while Jaremy and I were finishing breakfast. We had gotten up early so we could leave our hotel by 8:00 A.M. When she came back she had such sad news. Bishop Thom Budge, back at home had died of a heart attack. We were shocked and so sad. It is hard to believe.
A taxi came and got us at 8:oo on the dot to take us to the airport. We got there in good time and went through tons of security and are now on our way home. It is a direct flight from Paris to Salt Lake City. It is supposed to take about 11 hours and 15 minutes! Oh no! Can we make it? Can we sit for that long?

Later
I think we have about two hours left of the Great Trip, and I am getting so twitchy. What can I do? We have ate several times and I have got up to go the bathroom a couple of times so I have got to walk around a bit. Jaremy and Chrissy have been listening to their I-Pods and watching the movies, (I think there have been 3 movies). I have been knitting and listening to a story on my I-Pod and then I started doing origami. I made a frog and had him hopping around for a while on my tray. He kept hopping over onto Chrissy. We were sitting in the middle isle of the plane and I had the middle seat in-between Jaremy and Chrissy. It is so hard to sleep on an airplane I think and so I decided to make good use of my travel pillow, as it wasn’t working too well as an actual pillow. So I just hauled off and smacked Chrissy on the head! Now that felt good so I wacked her a couple more times around the head. I was feeling much better then, but Chrissy put an end to that. She did not much like being whopped on the head with a hot pink travel pillow even though it was very soft and cute too. Imagine that! She was loudly reprimanding me, “Mother!!” I thought it was pretty funny, the look on her face and her hair sticking up with static from my pillow, but I did quit. At least I had got out some of my twitchy energy, so that’s good. This has been the most wonderful trip in the world! I have loved it and I am so grateful to Jaremy and Chrissy for working so hard to put it all together. I am also grateful to our family and friends who helped take care of things for us at home. Wow, what can I say? I have just loved every minute of this! I am so glad we could go and I am very glad to get home safely too. So I guess this is it. Soon we will land and so comes the End of The Great Trip!