Home. Yay!
Tuesday was long and very, very hot. We spent most of the day lounging around watching tv. I did make a trek over to the hospital to pick up our translated bill, that they ended up charging me for....could have at least asked Lady! I ordered the van for the airport run in the morning. If there is one piece of advice I might pass on to others is, don't bother booking thru Geyatours for pick up and delivery....It cost us 60 Euros! The cabs are much cheaper and you just have to be aware of what you are doing. You must use the govt cabs and ask how much before you get in. They must show a license with the rate 0.59 in the window otherwise they are allowed to charge whatever they like and the bill can be hundreds of dollars!! But the cost to the hospital or Greenville Hotel is like 15 leva....12 bucks.....huge difference.
Later in the day, I went to check out the turtle pond in the courtroom that our room overlooks. They're fairly entertaining....I scouted out the area to see if I could get Kevin down but no such luck. I finished packing and we headed down for an early supper....6:15. We walked into the diningroom and went " Oh no, what now?!" The place was a beehive with activity and tons of balloons everywhere. In the corner, sat a dj playing some tunes. Great. Another event that the hotel didn't bother to tell us about. The highlight of our days, was supper in the restaurant! Bleak, huh??! Val comes over, "hey!" What's up Val? No services again tonight"...."no, no, not so much...it's ok...take seat in corner....I look after you!" Humph. Seems greasing the palms does work....he's working towards another Euro tip! A party you say!! Decorator, dj, entertainers, photographer, laying out a buffet....what kind of party? A 4 year old's birthday?? Seriously? Wow.....on the salaries here? Go figure....party went on with clowns and dancers and fireworks at 10 pm....Since we overlooked the courtyard, we had birds eye view. They were beautiful.
At 11, I went to check us out and pay the bill......put in a wake up call for 3 am.....drive coming at 4....out of the country at 6:25.
Wed : 4 am (Tuesday 11:00pm pei)driver shows up....ooooh....looks pretty cranky. Well, I called that one right. He was just rude. He was even more pissed when he wanted to take Kevin's wheelchair from us at the airport...."I'll take him in and get another...just wait a minute....The guy can't walk in that far....asshole.
We got checked in and the driver all but dumped Kevin out of the other chair but the airport assistant was a sweetheart. He chatted all the way to the gate asking about Canada and the treatment we just had. A positive change that reared it's head was Kevin took the wheelchair but when we got to the plane door, with assistance, walked to his seat. Couldn't do that on the way over! The flights were long, the waits in between longer. I really wanted to go pick up some souvenirs especially in Frankfurt as we had a 3 hour wait but when you go with an assistant, they take you to a "holding pen" unless you are late with your connections. I asked to be taken early to the gate where I knew I could handle putting him on the plane. I wanted to shop, dang it!! Well, with the security delays and all, we ended up at the air Canada gate to find out the flight was delayed but would board Kevin early. Crap...good for Kev, bad for shopping :-)!! Oh, well....turns out, the delay went on and on but we couldn't leave the area they put him in. We finally boarded and we had some wonderful stewardesses. Meals were great, and we finally arrived on time....someone had his foot on the gas :-); onto the next gate wait......Ok....we have 2 hours to wait....but there's no shops down here in the bowels of the airport where you go if you are going to the small spots in the maritimes....I can smell Tim's though....15 minutes later, I found them....ahhh.....a little taste of home......flight left on time and we had a stewardess in training and she did a great job considering the turbulence! Landed at 5:17 and home by 6:30....Several friends met us at the airport...that was nice.
What was amazing was the fact that Mr. Jones, was still up at 10, doing his laundy. Just his. Some things will take time to change :-)
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