I got back to Lyon just after noon today. I had gambled on a 30 minute layover in Munich since I had made it once before and the next available plane would have been many hours later. Thought I had lost the gamble because my plane from Poland arrived 10 minutes late and then took a long time taxiing. But it turns out my connecting flight was itself ( Read more... )

I'm way overdue, but a backlogged entry finishing our Italy trip ( Read more... )

The next morning we all slept in. By the time Christian and I got to Will, Arik and Jason's hotel, it was almost time for lunch. So we headed to a brasserie on a nearby corner where all the walls had been opened, turning it into one large open-air restaurant. They had lined up tables all along the perimeter and we sat down at them. Jason and I sat ( Read more... )

We drove out to my sister's this evening to see her, my brother-in-law and their kids before we leave tomorrow. We talked for a couple hours. On the way home at night, we saw an accident on I-80 in the other direction, where a car had flipped over onto its roof on the highway. It was unclear whether anyone was still in the vehicle or how it had ( Read more... )

Christian's brother Matthew and his fiancée Erin got married this Friday. It was a fairly standard wedding in a church, followed by a ginormous reception (300 people). Christian was the best man, so he had to be up at the main table while I got seated with his cousins. I got to know them a lot better, especially the cousins from Florida ( Read more... )

For lunch today George compelled me to join him at Gregoire for the escargot sandwiches they had on their menu this month (to eat them before the month expires). I enjoyed it, but this was George's first time with escargot and he had trouble not thinking about what he was eating. I think he liked the taste, but he couldn't make it all the way ( Read more... )