Leaving soon!

Oh la la! In less than 48 hours Bob and I will be headed to Paris and hope to live like Parisians for 3 months!  I've tried my best over the past few months to improve my "kindergarten" French.  I even found a young Parisian woman who moved to Sequim last fall from Paris to marry a young man who grew up here!  She and I have been meeting twice a week at her home, which just happens to be I'm my neighborhood. I love it when the stars align and things seem "meant to be"!  She has been kind enough to offer to Skype with me a few weeks after arriving in France to answer questions and help with language issues... I'm hoping once I'm there I will gain more confidence and being immersed in the language, it will all start to click.  I'll keep you posted.

Our bags are packed, and tomorrow we clean the house for our good friends Kimbal and Marilyn, who will take care of our house while we are away.  It's so nice to know it will be in trustworthy hands while we are gone!

We have lots of plans, and several visitors coming to see us while we are there: Germans, a Kiwi, two Canadians, and even some Americans we met while walking the Camino de Santiago two years ago.  It's what I enjoy most about travel.. The connections you make and the friendships that develop.  On previous trips I've always brought a sketchbook but never made it a priority to fill it with images. This time I hope will be different.  I want to keep this blog, and also a sketchbook diary of our time in Paris.  After all, Paris is the City of light and home of many artists past a and present, as well as home to my favorite of all museums: The Musée d'Orsay.