As many of you know, to re enter the USA at this point you need a covid test taken one day before your flight. I brought the BINAX now AG card proctored tests for us, and took mine more or less without incident the morning before departure, L took hers as well and we were good to go. Out the door at 6:15am, taxi stand a block from the apartment and, wow out at the gates within about 30 minutes of arrival at CDG, this is record time. AirFrance lounge would not admit me even with my fancy new AMEX card, so coffee in the terminal. Luckily I knew our documents needed to be verified at the desk before boarding, mine were fine, but L apparently hadn’t updated her computer or phone to Paris time and her test then showed 04/26, since Hawaii is 12hrs earlier. In spite of explaining that it was just a time zone issue the gate agent was having none of it. Panicked calls (4!) to BINAX ensued with long holds and then various redirects and elevations to Level 3 etc. The other option would have been to completely exit to the lobby and get tested at the pharmacy pre security, this was not going to work time wise. (Seems a little weird not to have some kind of testing option post security, but CDG is not one of the worlds better airports). About 10 minutes before boarding, the email finally came through with the test result shown in Universal Time, UTC, which then showed the date of the 27th, which was acceptable to the gate agent. This kind of thing is yet another reason that you need a working cell phone! A hair raising and nerve wracking departure, but we made it. Lots of empty seats, we were in economy comfort, so easy if long flight at 9 hours 45 minutes. Global entry came through for us and we sailed out the door and into a Lyft all in about 15 minutes. Anyway after looking like there was no way we were going to be on that flight, it came through in the end. Here’s some food pictures from the final dinner, at Le Petite Marche, near Pl. des Voges.

POST SCRIPT: Came down with Covid Saturday after flying back on Friday, so glad it waited till I was home! Mild case and tested negative within 6 days.