Wednesday, March 9, 2011

We're Ready... but Annette, I'm Not so Sure!

Yup, the Hutchinson family braved the HORRIBLE traffic, weather and slippery, sliding 401 to arrive safe and sound in Strathroy. There were SO many cars in the ditch or who spun out -- in fact we had our own little (not so little) spin out and slide on Williams Parkway near Mississauga Road on our way here today.
The stormy roads in Brampton...Before the "spin-out"

 The roads in Brampton were HORRIBLE, and I speak for all of us when I say that I'm really looking forward to NO SNOW low to mid teen temps and SUN!

I've been assigned my group. I'm Chatueneuf and Matt is (get this) MOULIN ROUGE!!! LOL so appropriate that I would be assigned WINE and Matt would be assigned dancing girls. Annette is la Tour Eiffel... solid!

Annette just got here - she hasn't started packing YET. And she still has clothes in dryer!!! Tee hee hee. I shouldn't really laugh - she worked hard all day today and had lots of running around to do after. So I actually feel accomplished that I was REALLY ready! For a change - no one is waiting for me. I feel good. Checked my luggage four times now and am certain I have not forgotten anything.

Matt is helping Annette, Eric just finished his homework, Sam is folding itineraries and putting them into folders for our groups and I'm taking a moment for a deep breath before losing my mind tomorrow!

But I sure am looking forward to my first cafe creme, (sorry no accents for me on a MAC - yup I'm a PC!!!) pain au raisin et des petits macarons. I am certain you will hear my sighs of delight from wherever you are!

(PS Claire is enjoying being loved by my friend Lynn - thanks Lynn! and Ellie is enjoying a lovely vacation at Poppa and Nana's house. She's supposedly being a good girl, but I think Nana would tell me that anyway the same way she used to tell me SAM was always good! We'll see when we get her back...I'm sure she'll be the best behaved dog in Brampton!)

Good night all - it's a busy day for us tomorrow so you won't hear from us until Friday when we get into Paris.

1 comment:

  1. So glad you made it there were many of us on FB hoping you were safe and then a parent posted all was well.

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