Monday, July 22, 2024 It was the brothers’ birthday several days ago, but I just got this picture and I love it so much. I know I was having a good time in Europe while they were blowing out candles, but a lot of me would have preferred to be there, with them. It is […]
Sunday, July 21, 2024 We slept well on the square bed, enjoyed the Jetsons feeling of showering in an acrylic tube, and watched it pour down rain during a leisurely breakfast before walking over to the airport (and the rain almost stopped by then). We got bumped up to Comfort + because the configuration of
Saturday, July 20, 2024 I woke up at 4am-ish and used the bathroom. I wondered if our flight was still on time. Luckily, Keith was checking when I came back to bed. Still on time! We got up at 6:30ish to be packed and out the door at 8:00. Everything went well – suitcase is
Friday, July 19, 2024 Today is my brothers’ birthday!! Shout out to David and Dennis who passed a milestone today. They are in their 70s, while my younger sister, Donna, is only in her 50s. Wow. That’s amazing. They are having a party in the newly remodeled kitchen (at Dave and Jayne’s house) that is
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Thursday, July 18, 2024 We both woke up at 4:30am today and used the bathroom and celebrated that we got to go back to bed for three more hours. The bus to the airport was loading at 5:30 and we could have been getting up for the day. We had a leisurely time getting ready
Wednesday, July 16, 2024 Our concert in Madeleine church started late because Vladimir (our truck driver from Ukraine) was stuck in traffic. He arrived almost an hour after we did. I don’t know where the truck with big instruments was parked, but traffic was apparently at a standstill. Quite a few people showed up for
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Tuesday, July 16, 2024 We started at the Garnier Opera. It’s fancy (one of my favorite words; not one of my sister, Nancy’s, favorite words). It is gorgeous. The novel The Phantom of the Opera made a surge of interest in the opera house at the beginning of the twentieth century. The infamous box five,
Monday, July 15, 2024 We stopped at a rest area again and had lots of fun. There were walls of coffee machines and many people were using them. I was delighted to see that we could have hot chocolate, so we did. There were so many options: with caramel or hazelnut, with grated oreos or
Sunday, July 14, 2024 Happy Bastille Day! I guess we missed some fine fireworks last night. The group picture of the seven of our group that stuck it out and watched made me totally jealous. Oh, well – I wouldn’t have gotten anything written and that would have disappointed me. Keith noticed our friend, Kevin,
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Saturday, July 13, 2024 We would have liked to stay longer in Vitré – it seemed like a really nice town – but we were on our way. We stopped after 90 minutes at a convenient rest area. I found it hilarious that everyone said they didn’t need a snack or anything to eat/drink, yet