Trip Highlights
Yes, we have officially been back from the States for a whole week now, and you'd think I would have at least checked in with the ole blog by now, but I have spent this past week feeling very sick and very tired. Oh, poor me. The trip was mostly lovely and very hectic. I don't think I will plan a holiday with so many ports of call ever again...unless it is a cruise on which someone else is in charge of all of the planning and transportation...and a guy named Antonio is bringing me fruity drinks and rubbing my feet on demand. So instead if boring you with all of the fiddly details, I will list some of the more memorable highlights from our two weeks abroad...those memorable ones which I can actually remember, of course. When we landed in Dulles airport, Emma and Sophie immediately ran toward a larger than life cardboard cut-out of Barack Obama and demanded to have their photo taken with him. George and I found endless amusement in the fact that all of the shops were carryin...