Hampton Inn Boston/Peabody

Bored sitting here waiting for my flight to Seoul (scheduled to leave @ 0050 hrs.). Catching up on some emails & research in the meantime. Still have a few more calls to make before the flight; will check in once I arrive in Seoul as it may be last contact 'til the return trip (not sure how technologically savvy our base camp will be). Happy holiday, everyone! Sent from my BlackBerry Tour

So true to form.<br><br>I've been running around this last week trying to complete everything I put on my 'Must-Do' list; and with only two days left, I'm feeling fairly confident that, yes, I will complete all tasks as assigned! However, I do have one (minor) concern at this point: I left getting my visa for entry into Indonesia 'til the last minute! Although, when I ...

... Mandela was held 12/5-12/9<br>8) Return to US 12/10<br><br>Of course, not having been in the country, don't know how much I'll get done and how much I'll not have time for. From what I gather, it's a country not unlike America (for the middle and upper classes anyway)--gleaming malls, affluent suburbs, internet and ATMs. And then there's the needs to be improved bit: limited public transport, destitute ...

... only go in and out of Hantsport with the tide and can only stay there while the tide is high. So the next morning, about 11am, we literally went in with the tide. There were little markers that the pilot used to check we weren&#8217;t beating the tide, like a rock on the beach which, as long as the water had reached it, we were OK. They started loading the gypsum almost before we had tied up. This took about 7 hours and as soon as the tide turned we headed ...

... in Paris but caught on, two hours later. Unknown to me they don't put your check bagages on your new flight, so had to wait in Madrid for four hours. Good note it is a really nice day in Madrid, so enjoyed that. i must say that the French and the Spanish are really friendly even though I am butchering their language

... and we were outside for about 25minutes or so. Turns out it was a motor in some piece of equipment in a closet on the 5th floor that shorted out and was smoking. After breakfast, we drove to Salem, MA. There we went to the Salem Witch Museum and the Pirate Museum. The Pirate Museum was especially interesting and our guide for the tour was very entertaining. Then we hopped back in the car and headed to Plymouth, MA in ...

So, slight detour/delay in my trip. My Grandmother fell and broke her leg over the holidays; she's been healing well, but slowly and is graduating from Physical Rehab Thursday. She couldn't manage the stairs at the old house, so my grandparents will be moving into a new condo with an elevator on Wednesday. Needless to say it'll be a pretty busy week for them with the move, and getting Mimi reacquainted back into normal life ...

... it at a paint store. These fans are all in their "colors", even business men to or from work in suits wear baseball hats with that familiar "B" on the front. Speaking of color there was a lot of Giant Orange all over town just not enough to paint the town orange with a giants win. I even saved my lucky giants earings for Sunday to pull out just one with but all they could do was get a Bonds homerun.

... scrapbook because I want to make a bigger one with all my pictures. We had pizza and Chinese food while we worked. John and Nick finally warmed up to us all. I played with John for quite a while. He got very attached to me and is such a cute little kid! Jenny and I read the boys "The Incredibles" for a bed time story. Then we came downstairs and we were not sleepy. We talked for quite a while.

... settled in the basement which is now a complete disaster with seven girls' luggage and beds. We relaxed and watched TV until about midnight. We were awakened this morning by Nick screaming upstairs, which continued until we all finally rolled out of bed. I took a quick shower and ate a bagel with cream cheese for breakfast. Now we are finishing up getting ready to go to the whale watch.