Bastille Day quick takes

• My sister is gone, they went back to France yesterday night. The goodbye was fast. We looked for a car service and went negociating in the street in the afternoon. We found a nice cab driver who took them to the airport for 15 $ less than the other guys! So we asked him to be back at 5:30 PM. Then all in a sudden it was 5:20! So we started taking the luggages downstairs.. and the cab was early! So we just said goodbye like this. No time to be sad. :( But I was still sad afterwards...

• I also have to admit I was happy to be alone with Mr L. We had a fun dinner and watched Apollo 13, we've seen it so many times that we can chit chat a lot and not miss anything.. :) I love him bunches. I'm glad we are moving. I feel like we don't have enough time together, because our working schedule are different. But soon it will be over. :)
  

• Sunday we went to Connecticut with my sister and her family. We stopped by Cracker Barrel. She loved it. Her husband was very impressed with the breakfast.. There is such a home-sweet-home feeling in those restaurants!

Phil and I decided to get a rocking chair for the deck in Chicago :)

• Today is Bastille day. It's national day in France. Actually it doesn't commemorate the day when Bastille was taken down. That was July 14th 1789. I'm kind of proud and amused that our national day celebrate the end of a prison :) But in facts France chose 14th of July as national holiday in commemoration of July 14th 1790. It was "federation celebration" and it was a big deal, that really made the beginning of more democracy (as in constitutional monarchy!) So anyway that was before they cut the king's head off... When all one people gathered under one ideal. :) That's it for the did you know moment...
  

• In France I would go see a firework, and maybe dance at the firefighters' bal :) every small town have those, and they are good :) When you ask a couple how they met, the answer is frequently : " at the firefighters' bal" . In NYC we didn't go to the fireworks on July 4th, too much people... For July 14th maybe there is a firework somewhere, so many French live in this city! I'd have to look it up. Otherwise we're going for an evening pic nic with frenchspeaking friends :)