Yet another Personal Best

And I finally broke 90! Woo-hoo!!! (84 to be precise)

Europe, it goes without saying, was fantastic

There's too much to mention from our 8 day trip to Europe, but it was awesome.

Visiting Paris for the first time and England for a second, we crammed as much as we could, seeing the Louvre (highlight!), Musee d'Orsay, the Pompodieu, Eiffel Tower, Cathedral de Notre Dame, Big Ben, Canterbury Cathedral, the Tower of London, etc. etc. etc.

The people were absolutely wonderful. (The French, I think, especially in the United States, get a bad rap.) I was also wonderfully amazed by the public transportation in both Paris and London. SOOOOO efficient and convenient.

And this was my favorite picture from our trip, courtesy of the Louvre:




And my illegal video from the Musee d'Orsay:

Trip Home and Ft. Worth

Had a great time (really!) driving from California to Texas. I hadn't driven that trek yet, but my brother was moving to Ft. Worth and my parents were so kind as to give me their old civic so that Jac and I could have a second car.

I originally thought we were going to leave on a Saturday, but it made sense to leave on Sunday instead (July 31).

The first leg of the trip had us driving down to Claremont, CA for the night. We ended up leaving (of course) about 2 or 3 hours later than we had anticipated, since we needed to make a trip out to Genentech to get something (it was only a little out of the way, but we already had left later than planned and this put us out another 30 minutes or so)