The long-awaited arrival of Harry

Jeff's classmate and a good friend of both Jeff and Kate is going to study abroad in Rome next semester. On his way, he decided to stop and pay us a visit (and bring me some mesquite chips for barbeque!). He flew to Paris and arrived just before Kate would be passing through Paris on her return trip from Glasgow. They were going to both ride the train together to Lyon. Plans were to meet at the station at a given location at a specific time. Problem was, they never saw each other and so Kate took the train home and left poor Harry in the station where he tried to spend the night. But at 1:00 am, they had to clean the station and so they kicked him out for a few hours and he hung out with the bums and homeless on the streets of Paris. (WE are SO sorry, Harry!) But he was lucky enough to catch the 6:00 am train because the ticket office accidently opened up a few minutes earlier than normal. We knew he was arriving around 8:00 am but weren't sure which train station he would select to depart so Kate and I each positioned ourselves at the two stations and with cell phones in hand waited to see where Harry would end up. I won! He got off the train at my station.

I was shocked to see him with only a backpack containing a full semester's necessities. And a big part of his load was my mesquite chips! We will be having barbeque tomorrow. Got to buy a pit first.