Overnight Guest

This past week we had a somewhat unexpected visitor: Mark's brother Steve, who works for the Certified Management Accountants of Canada. He was in India for meetings, and when he found out that Strasbourg is only 87 miles from Frankfurt (one of his stopovers) he made arrangements to visit us. This entailed a flurry of emails back and forth between Mark and Steve. At one point Mark worriedly asked me to interpret one of Steve's messages, thinking that we had the date wrong and that Steve would arrive in Strasbourg in 15 minutes instead of the 24 hours we thought we had! It turns out that Steve tracks the plane from the moment it leaves the previous departure point so that he knows if his flight will leave on time. We'd never heard of that before, and it gave us a bit of a start! You might understand by now that we had a bit of cleaning to do. : )

After Steve arrived we had a very convivial afternoon and evening together. In the afternoon we condensed the whole tour of Strasbourg down to Petite France and the Notre Dame cathedral with a side of Place Kléber and Place de l'Homme de Fer on the way home. In the evening we had our traditional raclette and then watched with amazement as Steve managed to stay up until 10:30 p.m., despite the change in time zones and his only getting 4 hours of sleep on the plane the night before.

In the morning I had to rush off to French language school, but Mark and the kids had another short visit with Steve before escorting him back to the train station for his 10:49 a.m. departure to Frankfurt. All in all, it was a great visit, partly due to the fact that it was so unexpected, but mostly due to the fact that Steve is such a super guy (you can correct me on any of this if you like, Steve, as I can always edit my posts.) : )

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