into the land of cheese

ok... so i wasn’t able to post for a couple of days... we had IT issues. namely, our voltage converter is a wanny, and dies every 10 minutes because it thinks it can’t handle the european current. pshah!

well, after much deliberation, reading and consulting experts in the field... we decided we could just plug the thing straight into the wall. it worked out quite nicely, so now there’s computerage for all to rejoice in.

ok... let’s see. interesting things that happened over the last few days: we landed in france without dying. it was after we landed that we weren’t totally sure if or not we’d live. we found out there was a much better way to get to vichy, other than what we’d found online. catch -- we had to take 15000 other trains, metros and buses to get there. all-in-all, it wasn’t so bad. and no one raped us (always a bonus when traveling abroad). taking this cheaper, alternate route meant we arrived in vichy 2 hours before we were expected. after buying a horrendously expensive phone card (pay phone = buy a card to stick in the phone...), we successfully didn’t get in touch with our host family... twice. we left a message, and waited for them at the spot we thought they said to wait for them. luckily, we only had to wait for an hour, and then there they were!

really nice family we’re staying with. a couple of mid-lifers, their youngest son just out of the nest and off to england on some sort of internship. the oldest is, somewhere.

meanwhile, back at the ranch... things have gone more or less swell. there were a few things that i wanted to make particular mention of, but over the course of the last 4 days i’ve completely forgotten all of it. sad, i know, but we must move on.