Of course I habitually woke up super early and when I realized there was no way I was going to fall back asleep I got dressed and headed across the street for a early morning walk on the beach. Although I clearly understood why my gal pals were still sleeping ( you gotta grab those [...] Read More

The next day we were off! I picked the girls up at the MarQueen in lower Queen Anne and set off for 1.5 hour drive to the ferry port of Anacortes. Best to arrive at least 1 hour in advance and the wait really isn’t such a bad thing. There is a place to get [...] Read More

True to their word Elizabeth and Annabella hopped a Friday morning flight to Seattle and the rest just kind of wrote itself. Here is a sneak preview of the beach right across the street from our hotel – the Outlook Inn in Eastsound – that I wandered around early Sunday morning while the others were [...] Read More

Funny how that simple spaghetti dinner the night before turned out to be so much fun. I credit that to the gin and tonics! Little did I know how delicious and interesting the following night’s meal would be! We would grill a fabulous filet of beef, upon request I would make as an appetizer of [...] Read More

This is the first tale of two dinners. Both of which happened at the new patio table of Marc’s mother Marian in the French part of Switzerland in a tiny village called Bussigny in her lovely little garden. On Thursday we had flown from Barcelona to Geneva to be picked up around 10pm by Corinne [...] Read More

What an amazing city, our first time there. Even though I have had a old roommate Gisela (a native Catalan) living there for over 10 years it took me this long to finally go and visit! ButI knew one of these days I would get to see her and it was like seeing her yesterday! [...] Read More

We just returned from a little over 2 weeks in Europe. We got back from our trip to Switzerland and Spain this past Thursday night around 11pm, got to bed around 1am and were both in the office the next day at 8:30am. Sounds crazy? Actually it was the best thing to do. Helped to [...] Read More