Off to Europe
After years of talking about going to Europe, Sarah and I are finally making it happen. We’ll fly to Paris on Sunday and our timing couldn’t be better. 
We’ll spend 4 days in the City of Light ( must learn the magic phrase, “Excusez-moi de vous déranger“) and then take a train to Italy. Our first destination is Cinque Terre, a card-carrying UNESCO world heritage site (don’t worry if you don’t know what that is, yesterday I realized I didn’t know the name of the president of Mexico). The Italian rail workers have planned a strike beginning one hour after our scheduled arrival to the seaside village. Sweet. We’ll then meet my sister and her boyfriend in Florence, do a bike ride in the Tuscan hills, and then visit Sienna. We’ll conclude our trip in Rome and fly home on May 27. All of this is provided that Sarah’s passport arrives. They said it should be here by Saturday. 
May 8th, 2007
Barron
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Taking the skateboard?
Billy
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Not this time….
So it looks like Sarah might be driving to Washington DC on Thursday to get the passport. Despite applying months in advance and getting every assurance it would be here in time, we’re now hearing it may not. Go America!
Brian
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Sarkozy gives us a reason:
“I want to launch a call to all those in the world who believe in the values of tolerance, of liberty, of democracy and of humanism, to all those who are persecuted by the tyrannies and by the dictators, to all the children and to all the martyrized women in the world to say to them that the pride, the duty of France will at their sides, that they can count on her. France will be at the sides of the Libyan nurses locked up for eight years; France will not abandon Ingrid Betancourt; France will not abandon the women who are condemned to the burqa; France will not abandon the women who do not have liberty. France will be by the side of the oppressed of the world. This is the message of France; this is the identity of France; this is the history of France.”
Wow. And Amen. A-Sullivan
Have a great time and a safe trip!