Summer of Travel -Part 1

The summer is flying by with places to go and people to see.

Athens:

I had the amazing good fortune of being sent on a business trip to Athens, Greece in early July. My new school belongs to an international curriculum, and requires teachers to have common training. I didn't expect to like Greece so much, but I definitely want to go back... Met great people and soaked up the beautiful hot sun.

Yes.

Pittsburgh:

Feeling too homesick, decided to fly home early to be with family and friends in late July. Saw Harry Potter, read Harry Potter, spied Harry Potter in everyone's house that I visited..... Played pool, slept in, visited friends in Maryland and Washington D.C.

Ate out at restaurants and visited the National Gallery art museum as well as the glass art show at Phipps botanical gardens.

Wish I could stay a month, but I'm off again tomorrow...

Good stuff

Some fun stuff going on lately in Rambouillet:


We went hiking in the forest and found a nice path in an area that was pretty natural, on a hillside near a stream.

I had a nice birthday and everyone had a good time at the Italian restaurant:


I got candles, bath soaps, and a nice spice rack for our kitchen:


Been working on my balcony garden and just pretty much trying to keep up with it as it grows like crazy!


Went to a baptism for C's cousin's little girl. There was a big buffet afterwards with lots of Champagne, a traditional cake made of cream puffs glued together with caramel glaze and brittle, another strawberry cream cake, and a third raspberry cream cake that we didn't even get to...


And on the back balcony the pansies that Mom bought for us last year cross-pollenated with some of the other varieties so that when I planted the seeds from last year, I got some mixed colors this year.