So today is my last day of vacationing in the Netherlands. It's very sad. Tomorrow starts my two joyful days of travel. I'm not overly excited for that. I have to get up fairly early to grab a tram (or more likely, a bus) to Den Haag Centraal station and then from there, take a lovely train to Amsterdam, where I have a 12:30 flight to Paris.
Hopefully I will be able to locate the post office in the Charles de Gaulle, as I have some things to send places. (I forgot to leave my host family's house key. I feel bad.) It's a lot more expensive to send things to Europe from the States than it is from within Europe... I was going to try to find a post office in the Netherlands to do that but it seemed like too much work... However, I land in Paris around 13:45 and my next plane does not leave until the next morning around 8:30 so I believe I have time to find a post office. I read that there is one in the airport, it's just a matter of finding it.
So after leaving Paris at 8:30 in the morning, I will be landing in New York around 10:30 in the morning. I'm going to be traveling back in time! If only the plane would fly faster, then I could really be traveling back in time. I don't have the slightest clue what I will do in New York to occupy my time because my next plane from there doesn't leave until 18:45. Such long days of travel.
I'm really hoping I can check my bags all the way from Amsterdam to Florida. If I can, that would be awesome. I went and withdrew some money today though, just in case I can't. I don't know if my card will work at the airport so I would rather be safe than sorry. I will try my card first, pay with cash if that doesn't work... Checking bags is expensive. I have two bags. In Europe, that's first bag free, second bag 55 euros. In the US with Delta, I believe it'll be $25 for the first bag and $35 for the second. I really hope they aren't overweight. If they were for the first flight, the lady didn't make note of it. I thought they must have been, though. Perhaps she was just being nice.
And after all that, I will be in Florida. Yay, Florida! I know it will definitely be warmer than here in the Netherlands. But only for a short time, before I go to Idaho and freeze to death. I became far too accustomed to the warmer weather in southern France... I have to re-adjust. It'll be fun.
So, I really didn't do much today, honestly. I slept in today (until 10:30. Lazy bones). Then I went downtown for a couple hours and took a nice long walk there (and searched for an ATM) but then I came back to the hostel and decided I'd just relax some. Tonight I have to make sure all my stuff is packed in a plane-friendly way. Tomorrow I'm going to eat breakfast! I hope. If not, that's alright too.
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