Day 15 Sunday December 18, 2011

Our last buffet breakfast together and then on to the bus to the airport.  Tom leaves us at the airport for his own continued tour of Oman and beyond ... he is anticipating Christmas in Bethlehem if all works out.  For the rest of us, we work our way through all the checkpoints and find our way to the Egyptair flight back to JFK.  It's a good flight with plenty of movie choices (I finally watch Avatar!) and naps and three meals and eventually we get to JFK in NYC.  Many of us work our way together through passport control and customs.  Others wave goodbye as we are directed to different control points. And eleven of us wait together for 45 minutes in the cold and wind (Yuk!) for the shuttle to the Doubletree Hotel for our last night on the road.  Another dinner together for some of us and goodbyes to all except Donna and Den who are on our same flight in the morning.