Getting ready to leave again

I know, I know.  I just left a post a short time ago and now here is another one.  Not like me lately.  But I have spent way too much time on Paris photos and wanted to share then with you. I have three types of formats.  One is picasa that you are all familiar with and is probably the best.  You can access it here.  The other is an Apple product and is called a web journal and slideshow.  You can find them here.  Check them out.  See what you like best.

We are getting ready for the next trip, which is to New Jersey.  Barry Gertz, who took my job when I retired, is now retiring after many years at Merck.  We are going back to his party and it should be fun to see a lot of old colleagues.  We will then spend a couple of days exploring New Jersey, where I lived for 10 years.  It is a very beautiful state that has received a bad rap because most people only see it from the turnpike or tollway and that is not so pretty.  But it is the Garden State and it does live up to that as you move west.  And Val has only seen Princeton so we will look around at my other favorite spots.

We're back home

We got back from Paris safely and am now reacclimatized to our time zone.  It takes a while to get back to normal--probably longer than when we were young.  The trip was great.  We were in Paris for 8 days (10 days including travel).  We stayed in a very nice hotel close to the Eiffel Tower.  We saw many of the sites and had some great meals.  The weather was cool and intermittently drizzly.  People were very kind and forgiving.  Our only French was Bonjour and Bonsoir Madame or Monsieur but everyone was helpful.  I have a bunch of pictures but haven't gotten around to looking through them yet.  

We will be home until early June when we need to go to New Jersey for a few days to celebrate the retirement of a friend and then we will be back here.  On about June 10 we will fly out to Carlsbad.

The fires in SD county, specifically the Carlsbad area are frightening.  Our condo has escaped the flames so far, but they have been close--probably within a half mile.  I hear that now the fire has moved east to San Marcos and Escondido and there is another one in Oceanside. Craig has been keeping me up to date.  It looks like it will be a bad fire season this year.