I've just arrived in my first hotel somewhere between the airport and AC, and will be at the westin tomorrow afternoon.
The departure was nearly a nightmare, with security at the airport in France being suspicious because of the fursuit in my luggage and wanted to check if I had a work and plenty other questions that usually I've got only from the immigration officer in US or from the customs officer (they even test all my electronic devices with a special engine for explosives, please call me when extremists will blow themself in a big dog costums, I would love to see that). The officer even told me I was looking nervous, I told her I don't see why I would be nervous, I've arrived at the airport long before the registration limit, have printed my boarding card at home to have some more free time, and now I was late for boarding because of her checking things that are usually checked when I'm in front of the immigration officer who we will ask me exact same thing. I didn't even had the time to go buy a book in the airport to read in the plane (I've usually always half an hour or an hour to do so).
Now if we need to justify all our life twice, once at the departure and a second time at the immigration, that's beginning to be ridiculous.
The funniest thing is as everytime the officer at the US immigration was pleasant and nice, only check the usual stuff. Strange thing is that I've submit the new internet form "ESTA", and it doesn't seems to have it on his computer, but he simply said it was ok and that we will check that in the office with someone else. They only asked me if I had fill it, I said that I did and was ready to give them the paper that I've printed, and they didn't even checked it and said it was ok.
But after that, we have to get through another security check point at pittsburgh, and the funny part, a second bagage claim, as we couldn't pass the security after the first bagage claim with our luggage.
I really wonder what's the point of doing that. We were just exiting from a plane who has got through a really heavy security check before leaving France, we go through another one before the bagage claim, after that we are going through another security check after the customs, to have our luggage inspected once more by the TSA who take them back, and who are giving them back at the other side of the airport through another bagage claim. Some people with me were getting kind of upset by that. You're really happy to finally get your luggage back with you, and they are taking them from you for you to grab them later.
And speaking of things that doesn't exist, it seems that my phone account is corrupted on the servers of my provider, and since two days, we are trying to put the international option on my cell phone but it doesn't seems to work. So I'm without phone for few days I think.
If you need to reach me, do it by my email account on my profile here, or on my hotmail.com account for those of you who have it.
If I still don't have a working cell phone till this week end, I will probably took one here, and I will give it to people that need to contact me for my travel here.