This morning proved to be interesting. We awoke around 6 and were showered, packed, and ready to depart by 6:20AM. Eventually our shuttle driver showed up and we departed...to pick up two other families. The good news is our flight was the latest of the three. Our driver wasn't too helpful though. We have provided the company with all our flight information when we made the reservation, but he didn't know what terminal we needed to go to. After dropping off the second family, our driver wanted me to run into the terminal to see which terminal we needed to go to. Luckily, I had downloaded our boarding pass as a PDF on my phone. After some double checking we were able to determine that we needed to go to Terminal 1.
Upon checkin, the agent would only give us our boarding passes from CDG. We left our bags and made our way through the futuristic tubes of terminal 1 that take you to security. Our.experience with security and time for connections was not great. Mary was selected several time for patdowns and swabs, while I had my carryon inspected and had the magnetic wand used on me in Dublin. Eventually we did make it through though, even if we only had 15 minutes to spare before takeoff (that was takeoff, not boarding). We landed in Dublin with an hour and twenty minutes, but between needing boarding passes printed, clearing immigration, going through US preclearance, and finally boarding it came down to the wire for time.
Update - It is now 5:05PM and we are sitting on the tarmac in Orlando awaiting a gate. We are glad to be home, especially considering we both took tomorrow off the recover from any potential jetlag.
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