we get to have a real French home-cooked meal when we go to her apartment for dinnerI thought they only ate snails, frogs' legs and freedom fries? ;-)
I'm not into football or rugby or whatever the big thing was that was going on while we were there, so I didn't pay it any attention at all. We *did* notice lots of people wearing some kind of Ireland team shirts.It's the Rugby World Cup. The NZ football I thought you might be able to see is this:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10466941after being awake for more than 28 hours!!!Ah, but think of all those airpoints! ;-) The killer is that last leg to Seattle, right?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
