Reshuffling the pack

Monday January 3, 2011 Day 187

Roger went out to the grocery store and the post office this morning, taking the package slip with him. When he returned, he had no package. He said the clerk at the post office searched and searched and searched again, and finally told him to come back tomorrow. On the way up to the apartment, he checked the mail, and another package slip was in our box! But the buzzer hadn’t rung - the postman had just left it without checking with us. Tomorrow is our last day to pick it up, as we leave on Wednesday for two weeks. I don’t know about France, the in the U.S., the post office has a policy that they will return packages/envelopes if they are unclaimed for two weeks.

In the evening we Skyped with Shelli, Ronnie, Brennan and Bruno. The baby is beautiful, and he and Shelli are at home now, doing fine. Poor Bruno! He is still trying to determine his place in the pack and figure out how he could have been so badly demoted! He used to be Top Dog, and now he is the underdog.