Get Away day - Gail and Peter leave 7-29-15

Today Gail and Peter are leaving to spend the next two weeks in England, they have been with us for about a week and it has been very nice visit.  We always have fun seeing the sites and eating interesting food and we get to catch up. Since they live in California seeing them is more rare than with the rest of the family.

We started the day with a little trip to the wine shop to find some presents for their host in England. Right now each trip out is chancey because our buildings elevator is being serviced again by the company that did the last service, and it's scheduled to continue for another 2 days.  We got lucky and it worked for us when we left to go to the train station where the Eurostar leaves for England so we didn't have to schlep bags down the 7 flights of circular stairs.
 Once we arrived at Gare du Nord getting them to the loading area was very easy as we early in arriving.  We have been here when the line to go through customs is backed up well into the station and winds all around with people waiting to clear.   Things took a grisly tone for Gail and Peter while they were waiting to board the train, when an Egyptian national attempted to stowaway on the top of the train and was electrocuted, he is in critical condition.  It delayed their train by 2 hours while they evacuated the man from the train and took him to the hospital.

We headed home for a quiet afternoon to rest up a bit from the whirlwind of  the last week.