Our time left outside of America was ticking down.
Obviously I wanted to see the local Costco in Pontault-Combault before I went home.
It leaned a bit toward French goods like wine and pastries but other than that it felt pretty normal. I will say that the fruit was the high quality that you would expect. We had some pretty disappointing experiences with French grocery store produce on this trip. One episode I recall clearly was that we bought some of those little plastic boxes of berries but they didn't have the absorbent thing in the bottom of the box. So berry juice got all over the place inside our reusable shopping bag. It was a sad display.
I worked my magic and got us business class tickets home on Air France.
We visited the fancy lounge at Aéroport de Paris-Charles de Gaulle.
There was a lot of champagne.
I was on a big French butter kick on this trip. I don't fully understand the nature of the magic that they're doing but I feel like I can tell the difference in taste. I had fantasies of buying a ton of butter and bringing it home but... it ended up being too much logistically. I was happy to have another last taste test with some of the stuff at the lounge.
The core difference between French beurre doux and beurre demi-sel is salt content. Beurre doux is completely unsalted, while beurre demi-sel is "half-salted," containing between 0.5% and 3% salt.
There was a giant Olympics Phryges mascot to wave au revoir to my cutie man.
Alright. Time to get down to business.
Catching up on a bunch of movies is a really fun part of flying. One such film was Dune 2.
These two were living their best lives. Movie, nap, movie, nap.
I'm excited for the day that Ernie asks "why are some of the flights we take baller and others trash?" The difference between some of the journeys we've been taking him on must be jarring.
There were little Ern sized baguettes.
One of the "entertain a kid on a glacially long plane ride" tricks is to bring a roll of masking tape and stick it to things and the kid will spend a long of time peeling it off.
Our flight landed in Atlanta, Georgia. We had a little afterparty adventure here in store for us.
