[Timeout]

M:

Can you believe this is the 1 year anniversary of our trips to France?!

Glenn and I are going to New Orleans (the poor-man's France) today for two nights. We're going to find a little French restaurant and insist they speak Francais to us. (No telling WHAT we might order!) But we're going to indulge in wines, kir royales and yummy food for a couple of days....and then return to earth.
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Prayers and best of luck to daisyscarlett. These fires are really a nightmare come true. It looks like a horror movie.

[mountaineer]

Last night I was perusing my France maps and WWI notes, planning next year's trip to Champagne and Lorrain. But this is the last time to France, I swear, until they shape up!

While we were in France last year, the D.C. snipers were on their rampage, and I recall how strange it seemed to watch the news from our London or Paris hotel room and see foreign reporters on the scene in Virginia discussing events in my country! I was discombobulated.

Have fun in N.O. and tell Glenn hello from us.