We're home!
We made it!
Didn't have much unpacking to do, because, you see, we don't have bags. No laundry either, because we don't have any clothes! Life is somehow strangely simplified in the midst of its complexity.
We have both purchased new phones/ SIM cards, so we can be in touch with the world again. We have just learned that the kindly gentlemen who broke into our car racked up quite a cell phone bill on David's phone, and we will be checking to see if we can track any of the numbers he called. Of course, it is highly unlikely that this will actually lead to finding anything, but it feels good to be able to DO something. It will feel less good to pay next month's bill to T-Mobile.
Interestingly enough, the worst part of the whole experience was not the police station or getting new passports, but dealing with Air France. It turned out there was a problem with my ticket that was completely unrelated to our missing our original flight; I will spare you the foggy details, but basically we spent 7 1/2 hours in the Air France store trying to redeem the ticket for which I had already paid. It culminated in my demanding to speak to the supervisor on vacation, us yelling at each other for a while, and the guy in the store getting tired of the whole situation and just printing us both tickets for no additional charge (which sounds really nice, but really it was just normal because we had already paid for these tickets.) So it only took 2 1/2 hours to get emergency passports, but it took 7 1/2 to convince Air France to let us get on the plane we had paid for. Cool.
I want to be sure to add that we do not want our little unpleasantness to discourage anyone from visiting France, which is a beautiful country and features many wonderful people. We would not even discourage you from going to Marseille; we would, however, advise against parking your car on rue Guibal, even in the middle of the day for only a few hours.
Pictures to come eventually of some of the lovely places we have seen! Also, I hope to be responding to everyone's messages and emails very soon... I have a weekend seminar so I'm in class this afternoon and all day tomorrow, but I will work on emailing as soon as I can!
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