Chargers Ready to Go

It was a very sad day yesterday.  Our oldest daughter along with her husband and three children, headed off to the Eastern States to a new home, job and life.  We were a bunch of blubbering messes as we waved them off and wished them well.  I can't believe the grandkids wont be running in my front door every second day as they usually do.  It is very hard to part with them, as the youngest one was born during the time they lived with us while their home was being built, so we are very close.  Boo Hoo I only have 10 grandchildren left now in this State, so I will have to make do with them.

I was impressed with how organised Sarah was with her packing and thought I should share it with you as I know I will use this idea myself in the future.  She plugged all chargers, camera, phones, DS, and Computer cords etc into a power board with the right amount of holes, ready to plug into a socket at the hotel when they stopped for the night, all set for their owners.  I did think to take a double adaptor with me overseas to stretch our charging power with the one adaptor that we had for each country we visited, but will definitely be doing this next time we travel.

Travel Fitness

Paris Workout
We certainly increased our fitness level on our trip around the world.  Our Paris apartment was on the 5th floor.

 I hurt my knee just before we left, and even though it had swollen up because of the walking and stair climbing in England before Paris, we two seniors climbed up and down the 5 flights several times a day.  The little windy steps made it very easy to manage. By the end of our trip we were a lot fitter than when we started.  Now there was a lift = exhibit A

but there was no way I was travelling in this.  I did however, shove macho man above into with the cases when we first arrived and he lived to tell the tale.  He did say it wasn't that bad, but I noticed he didn't go in it again!