On the way home: the one thing about riding trains which I did not realize previously is that, unlike airplanes, trains can be detained a few hours very easily. My train back home was supposed to come at 4:50 a.m. Yikes! My sweet family all wanted to come to see me off, so we all woke up at 2:30 a.m. and piled in the car before 3, arriving in plenty of time to meet the trian. Here we are at the train station waiting...