Christina and I returned home today and had to “settle” for Economy Plus class for our plane trip home.  And by settle, I mean “We know we’ll never travel so well as we did on our flight over to Germany but that doesn’t mean we can’t hope!”

The plane trip itself was highlighted by the mom and son sitting behind us.  The son was in his mid-40s and his mom was unfortunately suffering from some sort of mental illness or disease.  She became very fidgety as the flight went on and the son was obviously past his breaking point.  He was berating his mom verbally and many of the passengers became concerned for her.  She was pretty much incoherent but determined to get up and “leave” and his explanations for why she couldn’t leave would devolve into “Shut up”, “sit down”, and worse.  Eventually, after some coaxing from some of the passengers and a flight attendant, she wandered to the back of the plane for about an hour.  Luckily, nothing further came of it but Christina was disgusted by the son’s handling of the situation.

The highlight of our return was seeing Argo sitting in the entryway looking sleepy but much healthier than when we left.  Beta came down and we had a bit of a reunion for a few minutes.  Argo seemed less interested in the reunion than Christina was but I’m sure she was just holding herself back.

Nothing else was really accomplished as it became very apparent that we were still on German time when our eyes started closing involuntarily about 7:30.  I didn’t really experience jet lag on the way over so I’m hoping to be up and ready to go tomorrow around my normal time.