June 14 - Flight to Paris

We boarded our British Airways flight out of Denver at about 8:00 PM. Tonight we were flying a 777 stretch with pretty good leg room and some reclining space. My daughter's pre-flight 'fear-of-flying' drugs were already kicking in so she was already at cruising altitude before the doors were closed and the seat-belts clicked. Once we got her installed in her seat the rest of us settled in for the long flight. BA people are always so friendly and genuinely courteous that it almost make flying a pleasure. After a fairly decent meal and a couple of movies I somehow drifted into fitful, Ambien induced sleep.

We were over somewhere over Nova Scotia when we suddenly hit some severe turbulence that rocked the plane so much it nearly woke up the pilots. Luckily it was short lived and the plane continued on a smooth ride to our destination, even though I didn't sleep anymore. We landed in London around 2:00 PM the next day where we said goodbye to Matt and Michelle as they caught a jet to Amsterdam and we waited at our gate for the bird to Paris. We boarded on right away and landed in Paris around 4:00PM. Matt and Michelle would tour Northern Europe, including attending a World Cup game and we would head to Italy via Paris, France (we would meet up with them later in Assisi).