Preparations continue...

Today is Father's Day. After coffee and the Sunday paper in bed, followed by a great breakfast of Popover's and Julia's famous eggs, we embarked on a dry run on the packing. We discovered that both kids decided to have growth spurts right before the trip to we'd have to buy new clothes. Jenny in particular opted for about half her clothes to be suddenly too small. As a result, we gave her a new batch of Julia hand-me-downs, cleaned out her closet, and generated a whole bunch of gifts to Amelie, who we will be visiting in Frankfurt.



Also prepping our place for the couple who will be living here for the month we are gone. That included shampooing the carpets. Everyone does that, right? You have to shampoo the rugs before going to Europe to validate your tourist visa, or something. Right?



We also did some e-mailing to our Europe friends.



Finally, we weighed our bags to make sure they come in under 50 lbs each, which they easily do (our backpacks, however, may not). Jenny was worried the SHE had to weigh less than 50 lbs, which she recently passed.



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