Off to Europe… After a Stressful Start

We spent much of last week hustling around trying to get last minute chores around the house handled, taking care of some minor, but persistent, medical issues, and generally preparing to leave for a month’s trip away.At o’dark thirty last Saturday morning, an Uber picked us up and whisked us off to the airport to catch a 6am flight to Providence, Rhode Island to meet up with Lin and Mark for our long anticipated Danube River Cruise. It’s lucky we opted to get there a few days early. First, it would allow a bit of leeway just in case of airline delays as well as allow us a couple of days to adjust to the 3-hour time change. More importantly as it turns out, Marcie inadvertently forgot her backpack in the back seat of the Uber midst the unloading of the luggage on the airport curb, noticing the loss only seconds after the driver pulled away. Drats! (More colorful language was used, but I’ll spare you the details. Use your imagination.)We,pondered whether Marcie could do without it, bit…

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