Legally Blonde's Proceedings

December 14th was Day Two in Paris and also Mom's Birthday!  We got a little breakfast delivered to the room, but then decided to stop for some fresh and warm Pain au chocolat on the way to the train station because WHY WOULDN'T WE?!? Then while having our wonderful Pain au chocolat, I decided to skip the train/walk to our first destination and just take an Uber instead. The Uber got us to Versailles a few minutes before they opened.  I know it looks like we are there in the middle of the night, but our tickets were at 9 a.m. For the record, Mom was "trying not to over smile".   Later in the trip I finally said "try for I'm not torturing you". This was Marie Antoinette's bedroom.  If you look closely you can see a cut out for a door to the right of that gold piece of furniture.  This was the door she used to escape the mob (for the moment at least) when they came for the King and Queen during the revolution. The famous Hall of Mirrors.  I have to tel...

A couple of weeks ago, I managed to pull off a trip to Paris and Italy, which thanks to COVID was no easy feat.  To back up a bit... I told my Mom in late 2019, or maybe early 2020, that when she could see, I would take her wherever she wanted to go.  She had her (delayed due to COVID) cornea transplant in May 2020, so this past March we booked a trip to Paris and Italy.   Then when Delta surged, we started sweating it.  Things started to look up, and then Omicron struck.  I will write a post at the end about traveling during COVID, but for now, just know that in the two weeks leading up to the trip it was A LOT to keep up with, and in many cases, requirements changed daily. But one of the first signs that things wouldn't be going as planned was this past summer when our direct flight from DFW to Paris was cancelled.  They rebooked us on a flight to Miami and then a flight from Miami to Paris.  Later our flight home was changed as well (3 or 4 times ac...