Thanks, Charlotte!

Tuesday January 4, 2011 Day 188

Roger has been tracking the Barcelona World Race on the computer. The ships left Friday at noon. There is real-time mapping of the boats, probably by GPS, and the track each boat has taken so far is fascinating. The winds were apparently quite calm at the start of the race. Some hugged the coast of Spain looking for winds, others tried their luck along the coast of Africa. There are four boats out into the Atlantic at this writing, and the rest are struggling to get past Gibralter. The crew who manned the winning boat last time (Estrella Damm) is leading. Interestingly enough, the Estrella Damm has four different hands this year - not sure why the previous crew jumped ship.

Roger left early to go to the ATM and the post office, taking both package slips with him. This time he got lucky, and brought home the package. He made me guess, and it wasn’t until he asked me who I knew who would not have to pay international shipping rates from the States that I hit upon Charlotte, who up until a few days ago has been living in Vienna. Thanks for the Christmas presents, Charlotte!

We accessed our boarding passes and saved them to a flash drive. Then I took the flash drive down to our local cybercafe for printing. As we checked the tickets, we discovered that there is no boarding pass for me in Cincinnati. Roger’s pass is a 3-in-one pass, getting him onto all three of tomorrow’s flights. Mine has Montpellier and Paris but not Cincinnati. I am not sure how that happened, but that is all that came up on the computer.

We were able to Skypd with Shelli, Ronnie, Brennan and Bruno. The new mother and father took their infant to the pediatrician for his first check-up and the baby got an A+. After a bit of a weight-loss issue, Brennan is back on track, having gained six ounces since Sunday. I can hardly wait to hold him tomorrow evening.