Sigh...

We're in from the day doing our pre-dinner wash up. We walked the Luxemborg gardens and just around Paris. Didn't make the Louvre - next trip.

We're anxious to see everyone again but we're a touch melancholy too. It's been a great trip and though we're anxious to be home we're also kind of sad it's ending. We've got one more dinner, a stroll around Paris and then we're done. Our taxi is arranged and is showing up at 7:30 tomorrow morning which should get us to our 10:30 flight in plenty of time. We arrive home after a long flight at 11:45AM your time.

Some brief trip statistics:

We (well mostly Fran) took over 1500 photographs this trip. That's like 50 a day. Some I'm sure you'll see - others are mostly of interest to us (Fran loves flowers - I bet we have 100 photos of flowers). Anyway Fran has weeks and weeks of editing for the photos.

We've kept a rough count and believe we walked over 150 miles this whole trip. That doesn't include stairs - just the strolls around town.

As you know we saw 10 cities/towns, ate about 80 meals total in them, and to the best of our ability to remember consumed 20 bottles of wine (excluding the occasional glass at lunch). We took 9 train trips, 1 bus ride, and 3 flights.

Thanks for all the comments, e-mails etc. It's been fun "blogging" this instead of keeping a hand written journal. It made us feel like we could share our trip with you in real time. I hope you all enjoyed it.

We'll keep you posted on our status as we head home with some quick entries or photos but it won't be as fun.

Looking forward to seeing you all but not looking forward to our trip ending. The only consolation is the weather is turning cold and rainy in Paris right now and is supposed to remain that way through the week. Once again we lucked out.