April 19th.  We had to leave at 10 am for the airport to catch our first of four flights home.  There are 11 of us leaving today.  The others are going to Livingston, Zambia, for a few days or leaving tomorrow.  It has been a great trip but I'm ready to go home.

We flew from Victoria Falls to Johannesburg, South Africa.  After a four hour layover, we got on an Air France 380 Airbus.  It's a double-decker plane.  Us being in the cheap seats, we're on the bottom level.  This plane carries 512 passengers and every seat's taken.  It's a 10-1/2 hour flight to Paris.   

Four hours in Paris, then it's on a 9 hour and 45 minute flight to Seattle.  We have two hours to get through customs.  Unbeknownst to us, in the past year, the US has changed things.  You no longer have to fill out paperwork.  All you do is scan your passport.  You still have to pick up your luggage, however. That's what took the longest.  Seemed like it took way too long to offload.  Anyway, we then rechecked our bags, and found our flight to Boise.

It was another prop jet!  Older than the one we were on in Botswana.  It rattled and bounced around so much on take off that I was beginning to think we weren't going to make it into the air.  We were flying so low that Stella got great pictures of Mount Rainier.  She had the window seat and could see all the farms and little towns along the way.

We landed right on time at Boise, 5 pm. 

It's great to go on vacation, but it's always nice to get back home.