Visiting Andrew's work place!

This morning some friends of Andrew and Martina came over for breakfast!  Guillermo fixed Huevos Rancheros and Andrew fixed pancakes.  It was nice meeting Sylvie and Peter and we had an enjoyable breakfast all together.  Here we all are after breakfast.

After breakfast, we all drove together to one of the hangars at Jet Aviation where Andrew works.  Once we were all checked in at the front gate and had our badges, we walked to Andrew's work area - got to see the desk where he sits at everyday and stuff like that.  Then it was on to the tarmac where Andrew explained several interesting things about airplanes.  He pointed out to us which planes were ready to be picked up by customers and showed us interesting things on other planes.
Then we walked around to the front of the hangar and Andrew took us inside to show us the planes that are currently being worked on.  All of it was simply fascinating.  We walked inside one plane that was still basically a shell inside but had a few of the features of this particular plane already in process.  Like a wooden model of the bed that was going in the bedroom, the closets and shelving for that room and also a rough model of how the master bath was going to look.  It was amazing to see a plane being built like that inside.  Then we walked inside another plane and Andrew pointed out several features of planes that we had no idea about - like where a plane needs to be reinforced because of the wings and he also pointed out the rods on the plane that he has a hand in through his job.
It was also interesting to us to see that they keep a Falcon inside the hangar periodically specifically to kill the pigeons that invariably make it inside when the huge hangar doors are open.  These pigeons don't leave and make a mess all over the planes and the employee's desks.  When we were there, the Falcon squawked several times and we never did see one pigeon - so he's doing his job!
We all left there with a new appreciation of planes and a whole lot more insight into where Andrew is on a daily basis and what he does.  There are no pictures of this tour because picture taking is not allowed.
When we left Jet Aviation, Sylvie and Peter went one way and we drove to downtown Basel for cake and coffee.  This was taken close to the little cafe.

For dinner this evening, we had what is called Raclette.  This is how the table looked before we started dinner.

Andrew getting ready to fix his little dish

All our little dishes are cooking now

The Raclette when it comes out of the little oven.  That is melted cheese on top of vegetables.  Also, Andrew cooked chicken fajitas on top.