It has been a hectic 4 1/2 days since the American citizen passed away, and helping their family back home make arrangements. It has also been stressful and emotional.
A welcome change of pace was going to a Christmas concert at church.
Between phone calls, we spent most of the day on Sunday baking cookies for ourselves and the office.
We also attended a different concert that day.
A rose in the parking lot.
On my way to the morgue to identify and claim her body, I passed police and other specialists who had come to the Embassy check out the powder-filled envelope that came to our mail checking facility.
As we drove out the gate, the press were lined up on the street outside the Embassy.
I still don't know the results of the powder, but fortunately our off-site mail center has been contained.
On Christmas Eve day I went early to the funeral parlor to meet the friends and help take the deceased American to the airport for her flight home to the U.S. last night. While I was waiting for some of the friends to arrive, the director showed me around their facility, including 2-3 warehouses full of all kinds of caskets, from little tiny ones for babies no larger than a carry-on suitcase all the way up to extra large caskets for the bigger people.
Later we drove to the airport and I signed some more papers and paid the air cargo company for their services. The friends said their final goodbyes to the deceased, and then we left.
Back at the office I briefed folks on the status of the case, and my honey and I came home to swim and enjoy Christmas eve together.
We opened one present each, and will save the rest for when my in-laws get here, and celebrate a late Christmas with them.
Skittles really got into opening her present.
Then fell fast asleep on some cellophane wrapping.A Merry and Peaceful Christmas to everyone!
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