Back from Miami!

Yesterday, we arrived back in Paris from our week long stay in Miami. Honestly, it was hard to leave. Not only because of the perfect, sunny weather but because of our friends and the delicious Chinese food at Sum Yum Gai. Our stay in Miami made me realize how much I miss everything in America. Paris may be wonderful, but I'm truly an American boy from the Midwest who misses everything the states has to offer - my friends, my language, my stores, my food and everything in between.

And of course, when we returned yesterday, we found out that our power had been turned off for 36 hours. Anne Charlotte, our dog-sitter, was unable to stay with the animals a few days. The good news is that her mom, Mina, has been so helpful in solving the many problems we've encountered with our flat. Apparently, the electric company "accidentally" turned off our electricity rather than our neighbors. So not only have they "flipped the switch" on our gas in the past few months, they've now added electricity to the growing list of mistakes. Both Mina and our relocation service are trying to determine the cause as well as for the electric company to compensate us for the loss of food in our freezer. Not that there's much room for frozen goods in our ice box, but it's the point of the matter they're trying to drive home to the incompetent French electric company.

So with Miami a fond memory, our thoughts now turn to Morocco in April and a return to the states in May for McDonald's convention in Orlando. And with Spring on the horizon, comes the arrival of an onslaught of guests from America. I can only wonder if this will calm my senses to return home or further enhance my desire to once again find myself shopping every weekend at Costco.

Check back next week for pics from Miami as well as a brief summarization of our interrogation from the German police in Frankfurt for not declaring two cartons of cigarettes!