Whew. It's been quite a whirlwind since I last posted! Days of packing, preparing and -- yikes! -- remembering to find someone to look after the cat for two weeks! And then the insanity of our airline going out of business two days before our flight! Yes, we were booked on Zoom Airlines, and we found out last Thursday that they had gone bankrupt and we were going to be quite far up the creek without any paddles if Lady Luck wasn't on our side. As it happens, she was on our side. We had quite an adventure making alternative... More »