France in May, 2010

Off to Paris and what a start it was. We loaded everything up in the car. Stan and I needed to drive two different cars to Brian's house because we wanted to leave one there. Now, this would have been no problem, but Stan had his cell phone in my car....so he couldn't call to see if he had remembered his passport...which also was in my car. It turned out that he had remembered to bring it, but there were a few minutes of anxiety as he drove down the road, uncertain of his fate.

Brian fixed Stan's computer then off we headed to the airport. Now I have a wonderful GPS packed in the car, but I didn't bring it out to use. So, we made what I thought was the right turn....and no hotel in site for parking our car. Around and around in circles we went while the minutes ticked away. Finally we pulled over, took the GPS out of our luggage and plugged in our hotel. Yep, there it was....but there we were not! So, we turned around yet another time and off we went. When we got to the hotel, I RAN ahead to register the car, and Stan unloaded the lugguage. Finally, a bit rattled we were in the shuttle headed to our destination. That's when the read challenges began.