...is keeping me wa-a-a-iting...

I promise that's the last line from that song!! 
Hard to sleep last night, Jim and I were tossing and fidgeting next to each other, neither one wanting to give up and talk first. When I finally got up, there was a love note on the coffee maker (which is,of course, the first place I go!) that said...ONE MORE SLEEP.
And so it is...
I got a text from Alice saying they were all checked in to their castle in Bregenz...hey...sometimes it's takes a long time for a girl to find her castle!! At least she found her prince first! 

It's so hard for me to believe that next month we will be celebrating his 80th birthday. I'm sure I'll get a scolding for publishing this, after all, he could lie by 20 years and no one would question him! 
This weekend I met a woman just a few days younger than my dad and even though she had quite a fighting spirit, it made me realize how blessed we all are that he is so healthy he runs circles around the rest of us. It's never something to take for granted, at any age and I am especially grateful to have it that way now. Hopefully we can keep up with him all over Europe. 
So on the list of things that just didn't get done....

the puzzle of Hallstatt that seemed like such a good idea a month ago. I'm sure when I see the place I will fall in love with the water and the reflections and the green and the blue...but it was torture in a puzzle. Yeah...and the house didn't get clean either but it seems like no one wants to look at it anyway so we should be good.
This is the exciting schedule I have so carefully laid out for us for the next week. You might think that I am actually organized. Think again. But...I did come up with a cool reference calendar and map and I'm pretty proud of that! Let's see how it works out!

 http://goo.gl/maps/SoVGn

Well, that didn't work out so well. But I am new to this so any comments on how to attach a map would be appreciated. 

Off to start the day.....