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Tuesday, 11 September 2007

3 days until I leave for Paris

Guess I can start the countdown. A 2 week vacation. I've never gone on a vacation for so long, let alone out of N. America. I'm finally going to use my passport!!!

I'm not sure if I'm ready to go but I'm going anyway.

I had to give a presentation last Friday to my group so this conference I'm going to in October and it was kinda brutal. I have lots of work to correct the presentation so I wanted to go on vacation worry-free but I'm not sure if that'll happen. At least I have the rest of this week and 2 weeks when I get back before the conference. I'm trying to get more results from this experiment and it keeps getting messed up. I'm hoping the latest one I've set up is okay.

I'm leaving Friday night from Boston, flying Icelandair so stop over in Iceland and then to Paris. I've never flow this long before and I used to work myself into tears when I flew because I'd get so freaked out about crashing. Hopefully I'll be okay. I'll be drinking some alcohol I'm sure. I'm going w/ Jen and James, my married friends. I went to vet school w/ Jen and they happened to move to Maine after vet school, and they even lived in France for a year, so I'm kinda looking to James to help w/ the communication. I took 2 semesters of French in college but I took several years of Spanish in middle and high school so my Spanish is much better. Sometimes if I try to speak French I mistakenly throw some Spanish in there, oops.

So we'll get to Paris on Saturday and stay until Thursday when Jen and James fly back and I take the train down south to Orange to meet my Mom and Stepdad. They're also leaving this Friday but flying into Barcelona and then driving to the south of France and staying 2 weeks and then driving back to Spain and staying another week. I wanted to do the Spain part too but w/ this conference I chickened out and shortened my trip. So I'll meet my Mom in Orange and stay w/ them in Faucon until Saturday when we then drive to Poilhes, also in the south of France. Then I'll stay there until I leave on Friday, taking the train from Beziers back to Paris where I'll stay for one more night all by myself and then fly back to Boston on Saturday the 29th.

Have planned a little for the Paris part but nothing for the rest. I'm counting on Mom to have a plan. The rugby world cup is going on in and around Paris which might be cool to follow, I used to play rugby, and there's the Festival d'automne which is going on the whole time I'm there. I have to see the major sites of course but I don't want to do too many museums. There's a free tour that my friends recommended so that's on the list.

I'm not bringing my laptop or cell phone or anything except my new camera so no way of communicating back home really. If I find internet somewhere I can always try to post something.

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