How We Spent Our French Vacation

We should be at the airport getting ready to board our overnight flight to France right about now. Instead we are doing projects around the house. Once we realized that our flight had been cancelled yesterday, all forward momentum and enthusiasm for the task at hand ceased. We sat around and felt sorry for ourselves all afternoon, then went to a bon voyage dinner hosted by friends. Only we failed to voyage.

We do have seats on next Sunday's flight. We will get to Paris at about the midway point of our planned trip. We'll just pick it up there, minus the bikes. So we are going to spend one night in Paris and then travel by train to Chartres. We have a reservation for one night and then we will go to Maintenon for our one night there. We have a special dinner of "local cuisine" scheduled for our evening in Maintenon. Then we will go back to Paris, likely stopping at Verseilles along the way, and stay in the apartment we are renting in Montmartre.

Rob the window washer.

My contribution to the day's "vacation" activities.

Smilie's contribution to the work.

We plan to go to work this week so we don't use up all our vacation sitting at home sulking. We can sit at work and do that! We will have to come home by our original return date because of Rob's work schedule. So we are talking about doing the cycling portion of the trip maybe this fall or next spring. Assuming the Erysklljumnrbnesydwjukllevzxqpjukll volcano stops erupting in time.

Disappointing to not get to ride our bikes around, but still a GREAT vacation.

For those who want to feel envy:

Chartes hotel: http://www.hotellerie-st-yves.com/

Maintenon chambre d'hote: http://www.vieuxlogis-maintenon.com/