Everyone was missing their dogs, kids, loved ones, and their own bed. It had been an over-the-top successful tour, densely packed with good times with wonderful people, but it was time to go home. Any cross-continental trip (even though miraculously short compared to such travels of earlier times) is long and grueling. The one life-lesson we all inevitably learn: United *blows* (the cheap suckers), and Lufthansa RULES!
Rare giraffe with elephant mask, spotted at the Dusseldorf airport