Way to go Trey!

In the news....

Lyon's Hot (you think Houston is hot?) 

back in Lyon

I arrived back in Lyon last night and was suprised that it was SO HOT. We went to our favorite pizza place and had the usual. I didn't sleep much with all the heat! Check out the forecast for today... and with no Air Conditioning, I may need to visit the frozen food section in Carrefour today just to cool off.

just a quickie

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13999143/page/2/

florida beaches are the best

 There's no other place like it in the world! The white sugar sand, the emerald green water, the hot sun ... I love Florida beaches!! 

YAY for France! they beat Brazil

 Thanks to an assist by Zizou (my new hero), France scored one goal (thats all it takes) to beat Brazil. This is a photo of one of the many "shrines" to France's favorite son, hero, role model, all-around good guy, and superb soccer player! 

a glimpse inside my brain

  

what country is this again?

As I write this I am sitting by the pool at the condo in Florida. It’s the only place I can borrow a wireless internet signal. Sorry for the delay in updating the blog, but we are on our “repat” vacation…. we get one per year and so we are joining the rest of the family in Florida.

The trip across the pond was pretty uneventful, but upon arriving at the airport in Houston, we began to feel the “reverse culture shock” that I had read about. Paul commented first .. as we were standing in line at customs, he noted that everyone seemed to have a really heavy Texas accent. Well duh, we ARE in Texas I thought… but then I began to listen more closely (not too hard to do since it also seemed that everyone talked SO LOUD!) Suddenly I realized just how much we weren’t in France anymore.

As we drove along the freeway from the airport Paul remarked about the wide-open spaces and the aggressive drivers. I was shocked at how much pollution I saw in the air. A few times we had a brain lapse as we had to stop to think how to get around the city. It had been over a year since we had been in Houston and over a year since I had been behind the wheel of a car.

After a good Tex-Mex meal with Jack, his girlfriend, and her parents, we crashed as we worked to get our internal clocks adjusted to Houston Standard Time. We awoke pretty early and headed out 1-10 to Florida. A ride that typically takes 10 hours was unusually long – 14 hours - longer than the flight from Paris to Houston!

The sun is bright and very hot and feels really really good!