New visitors 5-27-15

We spent the morning shopping for a dinner at the apartment with our new visitors.  Gina, Terry, Jennifer, and Scott arrive at 5:00 today from Rome.  Scott and Jen will be here for 2 days and Terry and Gina will be here for close to a week.  The first two days they will all stay at a hotel just next to the Place Bastille and we will tour from there.  Then when Scott and Jen leave for the U.S., Terry and Gina will move up to stay with us in the apartment for the balance of their visit.

We took hired van to the hotel and got them checked in and a little situated then we all jumped on the Metro to go to our apartment.   Terry and I got off one stop early to pick up some last minute items to have with dinner, while Deb, Gina, Jennifer and Scott continued on directly to the apartment.
Dinner consisted mostly of finger type foods that are available in France like: celeri remoulade, pork rillettes, Spanish & Greek olives, foie gras & chorizo from our butcher; Brie, Tomme de Savoie covered with dried wildflowers, chevre in two styles, & Sheep's milk cheese  from our cheese vendor; then of course a couple types of bread from our baker.   Several bottles of wine including champagne and then for those who wanted some we finished night with a little nightcap of Calvados, Vielle Prune, or Cognac for a digestif.  I forgot to take pics so you'll just have to use your imagination, sorry.

I walked them back to the Metro for the ride to the hotel around 10:30 and it was PACKED, wall to wall with people.  I speculate that perhaps a concert at the park must have let out and people were headed home before the metro closed.