Where in the world...

If you click the pin on the map to the right, you'll see my address in Paris and will be able to get directions to my apartment - drop in anytime. :) The zoom symbols will also appear so you can zoom in and out for different perspectives of where I'm located. The hand will allow you to move the map around to look for familiar places you've visited or to locate places I've referred to in my blog. Clearly, you can see that you're going to be very busy during my stay in Paris. I hope you're not planning any activities of your own because you just won't have time to do anything but play with me.

This has to be a good omen!

Do snails live in Lynden? I don't think so! And yet, here he was this morning on my garden gate, waving his little antennae in greeting: "Bon jour, Sharon," I heard him say in his tiny snail voice. "Je vous attends." (Krysta, that means "Good morning, Sharon. I'm waiting for you." :D

Bon Voyage

Missing You

Third Attempt

I've been going around in circles for a couple of hours trying to get this slideshow set up, so I hope it works this time. And if it does, I hope I remember how to do it again next time. Aargh!

Techno-savvy (well...almost)

I finally have my digital camera, in hand, after an unbelieveable series of false starts searching the internet for the lowest price. I learned that the "lowest price" online sometimes means the manual is written in Japanese, no warranty is included, and the cameras are "gray market." Krysta and I were trying to decide what that meant. I concluded that it's just barely more legal than the black market, but I still envisioned dealings with shady characters out of the trunk of a car in a dark alley. As it turned out, the camera I bought locally at Office Max was $30 less than any of the internet prices. Let that be a lesson to me! Krysta is coming on Monday to show me how to post photos on my blog, so what you'll see at first will be my practice attempts. I'll try to relate them somehow to my trip. Let's see... what could I photograph? My suitcase? I'll have to dust off the cobwebs first. Tanner and Sophie? That's an idea - then when I have separation anxiety, I can get a fix by logging onto my blog.

Come back later and prepare to be amazed!

Choississez Vos Chansons

Now you'll be able to listen to "vrai" French music as you read my blog. Are you excited? Are you impressed? Just search your favorite French crooner on the radio widget, sit back and let yourself be transported to France. You don't have a favorite French singer, you say? You don't even know any French singers? Let me suggest Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Trenet, Mireille Mathieu ...