Guy Lunardi's blog

Bonjour everyone, Tori's site just received a pretty significant system upgrade. After a quick tour, it seems every still works properly.

Please report any issue you may find to admin @ pray4tori.com or leave us a comment here.

Thanks,
-Guy

Maria, Tori and Tim have made it to Los Angeles, California. In a matter of minutes now, they will be together with Brendan, Whitney, Grandpa, Grandma, Cupcake, Thumbs and Tinkerbell. The house will be full again as a family gets re-united.

As they are on the last stretch home, I wanted to make everyone realize that they all just lived the Longest day of their lives.

For matter of simplification, I am going to cheat a tiny bit on the hours so that it is easier to remember.

Maria, Tori and Tim left Shanghai at Midnight (00:00) on the morning of Tuesday the 12th. As of 8:30pm mountain standard time, it is/was still Tuesday the 12th for them and it has been for over 35 hours! Now it is/was only 8:30pm at the time and they would have just landed in Salt Lake City. So another 45 minutes drive away from home + 30 minutes to get the luggages from baggage claim and loading the cars. In the end, it is very like that their February 12th 2007 will have lasted for over 37 hours.

There is a tiny detail as well. The day started at midnight. The flight from Shanghai to Paris is a late night departure. This means they have been up all day on the 11th before that.

So they could have had:
- breakfast in Paris by getting there at 5:30am
- lunch in Los Angeles by getting there at 12:50pm
- dinner in Salt Lake City by getting there at 8:30pm

Looking to make sure I didn't make mistakes with the flights and timezones, I found out something interesting... Today's flight AF0111 from Shanghai (PVG) to Paris (CDG) was canceled! There were meant to come home today I suppose.

Love,
-Guy

Tim wanted to let you all know that there is an Internet access outage at the Hospital.

He may not be able to provide udpates for a few days. He will let us all know once he is online again.

Thanks and a great day to all of you,
-Guy

Tori, Tim and Maria have not contacted us this morning. They should have landed in Paris and transferred to their flight to Shanghai by now.

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Again, we are not sure if they are onboard but will try to find out.

Fortunetely, there are 2 flights direct between Paris and Shanghai later today for them to take if they didn't get on the first one.

Thanks,
-Guy

Tori, Tim and Maria have boarded Air France AF027 bound to Paris.

It wasn't without a scare though. Tim and Maria were told 90 minutes before boarding that the ground crew wasn't sure they will be able to let Tori board the plane. After several discussions with the Air France doctors and a few faxes later they were finally all aligned and ready to let them board.

Yours,
-Guy

Tori, Maria and Tim made it to Washington Dulles airport!

They are all sound and safe. They even found out that Tori's chair fits through the aisle of that domestic jet aircraft.

Maria said that Tori didn't sleep and chose to watch movies throughout the flight. Tori is now resting in the lounge.

Right now (2pm MST) they are sitting in the Air France lounge. They are trying to get out of Washington earlier on an Air France flight leaving in a few minutes but Air France is making it difficult.

Thank you,
-Guy