Day 145 Back Home to Klaipeda

We got up early to get breakfast, check out and walk to the train station to come home.  When we got down to the restaurant, a grandmother and grandson were there, and when she heard us speaking English, asked where we were from.  We had a nice visit.  They live in San Francisco, but she was born in Lithuania and comes for a visit every year.  The grandson was having his first visit.  Her story is quite sad.  Her father was shot and she and her mother left for Germany, thinking they would be gone only a short while.  Her brother was so little they left him with his grandmother until they could get settled and come back for him.  That was impossible and they later escaped to Australia and then New Zealand where she grew up.  She eventually moved to San Francisco and married, but her mother had remarried and spent her later years in Australia.  They did not see her brother again for many years.  She was very interested in what we liked about Lithuania, what all we had seen, what Rosa liked best and what we thought of the people, etc.

We had a nice train ride to Klaipeda and came home to do laundry.  The next time we pack our bags it will be to go home to Villa Rica.  Probably should get started on that, huh?