Eiffel Tower

Cooking class

How do you kill a few hours while your spouse is attending a conference? How about taking a cooking class!?

Metro

Taking the subway on Sunday morning, not too crowded. Destination: cooking class!

Le Meridien Etoile hotel

Each floor of the hotel has vending machines, including one for beer. No ID required. If you're tall enough, you're old enough. Just pay with credit card or your phone.

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Notre Dame Cathedral

Paris

On the "Big Bus" tour, at the Arc de Triomphe

Susan's conference has "welcome" signs up at the Paris airport

Summer solstice sunset, Carcassonne, France

Church within the castle walls

Carcosson, France

La Cité, the medieval citadel in Carcassonne, a hilltop town in southern France's Languedoc area.

Dusk in Homps, France

Kyle working a line while boat rising in a lock

Biking through a vineyard near Homps, France

Capestang church from 1200's

The French canal gang

Capestang, France

Captain Susan steering us into a tunnel

Good morning from Colombiers, France

Not us

Just an old, sunken boat, tied to the shore.

Going under bridges

Made it through our first lock

Underway

Le Boat

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AirFrance

We will be flying an Airbus A380-800 to Paris. It's a huge, double decker plane.

Lake Mendocino

North boat ramp dock

Cabo, not Kenya

Typically we are in Kenya this time of year, at MTRH (hospital) in Eldoret with a team of friends... who happen to be nurses and surgeons. But because of an ongoing doctors strike, we cancelled this year's trip. And if anyone happening to read this thinks the idea of doctors going on strike is a terrible thing to do, I encourage you to research the issues on the internet before jumping to such a conclusion.

So We find ourselves feeling a bit melancholy, missing our Kenyan friends and American colleagues this year. We miss you all!

But I love the analogy that when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. So with our scheduled time off work, we are vacationing at a wonderful resort near Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. It's a pretty tasty lemonade.