…they set up the champagne stand and tip jar, have the pictures from the take-off point for sale and everyone has a cheery old time.
We were 10 – 1 American, 1 Japanese, 4 French, 2 Canadian, 2 Brazilian. Everyone except the American (that would be me) and the Japanese were fluent French speakers so there was much hilarity in French which, my imagination perhaps, but I understood enough to chime in occasionally, in English of course, which they Also all understood.