To Summarize...

Summary: The Shuttle got us to Heathrow with plenty of time (2½ hours) before the flight. We are the breakfast the hotel had put together for us and killed time until 8:45 boarding. We were on a plane with individual touch screens in front of each passenger offering an array of TV, movies, music and games. Other than a male flight attendant with a bad attitude it was an easy, uneventful ride home. Detroit had a light layer of snow and temps in the mid-thirties. Quite a shock after the fine weather we had for the trip! After all, in the two and a half weeks we were gone we had only had a bit of light rain while driving to and then from Mont St. Michel and the temperature stayed mainly in the sixties and seventies. We breezed through customs and had an hour and a half wait before we could take the Michigan Flyer back home. This had been a wonderful trip with no glitches to speak of at all. We saw and learned so much covering over 3000 years of history. The Euro was about $1.43 most of the time and the Pound was $1.65. We paid €1.52 per liter for gas for two fill-ups of the rental car in Normandy. We left things undone and places not visited in Nice, Paris, Normandy, and London so, should we ever have the opportunity to return, we will have plenty to do.

An interesting addendum: While we were gone it was bothering Marv that our Federal Income Tax refund, which we had filed before we left town in March, never got deposited to our account. He checked on it as soon as he could only to see that we hadn’t actually submitted it after we printed it and the Michigan form. As luck would have it, the IRS gave us until midnight TONIGHT to submit since the 15^th was on a weekend. Disaster averted—we have now filed it for real and have the paperwork acknowledging it. WHEW!!