Hearing all about the fires in L.A. It's been major news even here - every hotelier, shopkeeper, etc who asks where we're from asks about the fires. It sounds like a mess. If anyone from home can report from there how things are, that would be awesome...
That said, far away from anything remotely warm, we're in Colmar right now - we had Lebanese food for dinner last night (no comments from the peanut gallery on that one) which was really good, though they were completely thrown off that Cindy wanted coffee
her dinner. I'm telling you, these Europeans and their rigid customs. She was trying to tell me in French that the coffee comes after dinner and I was like, I know, she wants it now instead. I think she thought we were completely insane for the rest of the night. But we did have a good dinner and served my purpose of boycotting French food for the duration of the trip. And seriously -- we passed a restaurant that served KANGAROO. Yes, people, Kangaroo. These people will eat anything that lives. Hide your pets.
Anyway today's our last real day, I can't believe it. We're headed through some wine country back to Germany to Cologne for the night and then tomorrow it's just the airport and home... that is assuming LAX is still visible through all the smoke...
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The fires: Now 500,000 people have been evacuated. If you can get on the internet, go here:http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2007/10/23/us/20071023_FIRES_GRAPHIC.html# and you will see a map of where the fires are. The ones closes to LA are in Malibu, I think. It's a horrible situation and they don't seem to be able to get the blazes under control, though the Malibu one they hope to have contained sometime today.
Don't know how it is affecting LAX.
Love,
Mom
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