Musings...

Last night my family went out for dinner at Mandarin for a bon voyage "party" along with my grandparents and my Uncle Bob. The food was good and the company better because it is going to be the last time I get to be with them altogether for another 4 1/2 months...
The funny part was though, was my fortune from the fortune cookie I picked. It read: "You'll be travelling and coming into a fortune". I can't get over how appropriate the first part of that fortune is; but, I hope that I will come into a fortune of experiences, many of them like how I've always dreamed and imagined.

Some things that I hope to do/see while in Europe:
1) Eat gelato again! (it makes me hungry just thinking about it)
2) Meet up with Vai at a Parisien cafe and eat our long talked about French bread
3) In Scotland: see a true Scottish person wear a kilt :)
4) Send one postcard from each place I visit to my family; and one postcard to everyone else throughout my sejour en France! (email is great, but there is just something about snail mail that makes the letter all the more specialer...it's like finding chocolate in a cupboard when you thought there wasn't any in the house)
5) Eat a lot of French pastries!
6) Do two big trips on my breaks: one to Eastern Europe (Prague, Bratislava, Budapest, Vienna) and one to Italy, maybe Greece at the same time, if there is enough time to fit it in and still take in the place we visit
7) Go swimming in the Mediterranean Sea (I've already put my feet in, but now it has to be the real thing!)
8) Take a ride in a gondola :)
9) Go salsa dancing; I figure there will be ample opportunity because I'm right close to the French/Spanish border...now just to find some dancing shoes :P
10) Find Jean-Luc for Sarah W. ;) LOL, and make sure to avoid any Pascal I may meet :P