We’re back!

That’s right, Melinda & I are back in France. After the sabbatical in 2010/11, we vowed to come back every year and, mostly, pulled that off until 2018, the year I left PSCS and we moved for a year to California. Soon after, well, there was this little thing called the pandemic. And while we did make it to France last year courtesy of Melinda’s mom as part of a Shaw holiday, I didn’t update the blog (which I’m kicking myself for not doing).

So we’re back and I’m back!

We left Seattle today on an Air France flight and with this nifty new neck pillow (seen in this photo). It attaches to the airplane seat and then connects under your chin, thus allowing you some comfort if you want to relax your head forward or to either side. It worked fairly well for me, but especially well for Melinda.

Speaking of Melinda, she was trying a new concept for the few days before we left, one in which she goes to bed an hour earlier each night and gets up an hour earlier each morning. Today she got up at something like 2am.

I think what worked for her was being sleep-deprived. She more or less passed out on the flight…

In other news, certainly significant news, it’s Carib’s 90th birthday today. 90 is a big number when it comes to age (it’s less significant when you think of dollars, that is unless you have those new-fangled dollars, what Jed Clampett referred to as mill-EE-on dollars).

My brother, Steve, who came up from California with his wife, Deb, to celebrate the occasion shared this photo with me.

Happy birthday, Carib! As a flashback, here is how we celebrated your birthday 13 years ago.