After a long night of packing, cleaning, etc, Friday morning Julie Miller rode out with us to the Dullus airport in order to drive our van home for us. We flew Jet Blue to New York. We had plenty of time in the JFK airport to play a little frisbee, eat a little food, and sleep on benches designed to make sleeping impossible.
We loaded up on our Air India flight. The whole taxiing process took over two hours due to mist related backups at air traffic control. The great thing about flying with another nation’s airline is that you get a bonus international meal or two. We had spicy mutton, yogurt, rice, and some soupy desert. Along the same lines, we had the opportunity to watch Bollywood in-flight films.
Customs went very smoothly. Because there were nine of us all wearing tie dye they directed us to the empty group line. Hurray for skipping lines (legitimately)!
God’s goodness showed up in the car rental process. They had misplaced our reservations and therefore didn’t have the size cars we had requested, so we got slightly larger cars for the price of smaller ones. With nine peoples luggage, bigger (at least to some extent) is better.
Driving on the left is different. It is pretty easy to drift left and clip curbs. Making wide right hand turns is weird too. You can all pray that we don’t put any nicks in the rental vehicles.
The place we are staying this week is amazing! It is rented in one week blocks. It has its own kitchen, washing machine, and yard. What is crazy is that renting all these rooms, yard, and appliances is cheaper for our family than staying in a hotel.
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