Morning In Paris the City Awakes

Good morning! right now we're flying over England on our way to Paris. Our day started with lots of last minute packing at the house and saying goodbye to Cooper. Now we're 6.5 hours into a 7 hour flight and I'm starting to get really excited!

So how did we end up on a plane to Paris with the whole family? Well it all started with my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary. They that instead of a party to celebrate this big event, they enacted to take the whole family away together!

So we all got our thinking caps on to dream up fantastic places to travel to. We looked at Ireland, but the deals we found seemed a little too good. We researched Germany, but half the family had already been there. A Baltic cruise was scheduled, but after looking at the itinerary we realized we wanted to spend more time exploring than cruising. Paris was chosen because we found this great cruise and no one had been here before.

As I'm finishing this post, we have arrived at the boat and are currently waiting for lunch. It's fairly cool here, probably in the low 60s right now, but since they use Celsius here I just know I need a sweater!


We passed the Eiffel tower on our way here so I think that will be one of our first stops after lunch.

City of Lights

The countdown is on! 4 days until the clan takes off for Paris! The City of Lights is calling across the sea and we'll be there soon. The grandparents and extended family are already in France, sailing the Rhone River. We'll be meeting them in Paris and sailing the Rhine River up to the coast and back. Along they way we'll be stopping in Giverny, Vernon, Rouen, the beaches of Normandy, Les Andelys, Conflans, and Paris!

After a week cruising, we'll be heading to London for 3 days! The city of Sherlock Holmes, the royals, Shakespeare, who knows who we'll bump into! I'm having a hard time narrowing my list of places I want to see while we're there.

More to come as I try to make up my packing list!

Appendicitis!

Finally getting back to the old blog. I've been feeling bad about not updating this (in months!) but honestly life has been pretty normal around here. And while perhaps there are some out there who would be interested in my "normal" life, I find no real joy in blogging about my addiction to White Collar or going to work 5 days a week. That's too bland for me, I'd rather share the interesting, the exciting and the notable parts of my life.

A perfect example: Last Friday, around 1:00am I woke up with stabbing pains in my abdomen. When they wouldn't go away for almost 2 hours I finally woke up my mom and we went to the hospital to have it checked out. The diagnosis was: Appendicitis!

For those of you who have not had appendicitis, it is like cramps, only 50 times worse and doesn't go away. I researched it (thanks WebMD), and there really isn't a cause for appendicitis, which is an inflammation of the appendix. If left unchecked, your appendix can rupture and the chemicals inside it can poison you from the inside out. So as soon as doctors see something wrong, they remove your appendix, because it really doesn't do anything.

Soo Friday I spent in the hospital going through tests and then undergoing surgery. It's incredile, they did a whole surgery and removed an organ, and all I have to show for it is 3 small incisions! But man, do those incisions hurt! Since they have to cut through your abdominal muscles so it took me until Tuesday night to be able to pull myself into a sitting position on my own and I still can't twist without it hurting.

I was released from the hospital Saturday evening and since then have been crashed out in my living room trying to keep the cats from jumping onto my lap. I think they're mad at me.

Hopefully I'll be back to feeling like myself by the end of the week, everything seems to be healing really well. Two of my cuts are looking great, and my belly button is turning really beautiful colors from the bruising!

Hopefully my next post will be a happier post!