Well Jen and I are well into our journey home, hitting the 37th hour of traveling. The trip has been good so far, nothing to out of the ordinary.
Jeri to Fortaleza: The bus ride was quite smooth and we were only a little tired once we arrived at the Fortaleza bus station at 4:11 am. We decided to taxi to the airport instead of walking which turned out to be a god idea because it was quite a long and confusing drive. We checked through to our gate where we had the longest wait of our journey: 8 hours to kill. Luckily there were Lazy-boy chairs which Jen and I took full advantage of as we watched many people and flights come and go.
Sao Paulo Airport: It took us awhile to find the right lineup to stand in but once we were directed to the right place everything went smoothly. Our friend Tayna on the other hand seems to have bad luck. She was flying from Eastern Canada and was supposed to be arriving in Fortaleza at 6:30, the same time we were in the Sao Paulo airport. When we were checking into our flight I saw a board bag sitting next to our counter with an Air Canada tag on it. I joked to Jen, how funny and terrible would that be if that was Tayna's bag? She already has had back luck this year and was now returning to Jeri. When we walked past the board bag, guess who's name was smartly written across it? Poor Tayna, I sure hope she finds her bag fine.
Chicago Airport: Well, it was a long 10 hour red eye flight but when we arrived in Chicago at 4:30 am we still ran outside to play in the snow and shock ourselves in the -11°C temperature. After checking in through security, we finally felt we arrived back to civilization when we each ordered a Grande Gingerbread Latte from Starbucks. The drinks welcomed us into the holiday season and along with the snow we sure felt half a world away from our life in Jeri.
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