North American Hiatus

Things that have happened in the past week:

- We failed to obtain B's mandatory French travel document (Titre d'Identité Républicain or TIR, the document for kids born in France but who are not French citizens) due to a computer glitch between the OFII (immigration office) and the prefecture.

- One of our dogs ate an entire bar of dark chocolate, got theobromine poisoning, was rescued by the 24-hour mobile veterinarian service in the Paris region (pumped full of fluids, activated charcoal, and paraffin oil at 3am, in our living room), 6 hours before our taxi was scheduled to take us to the airport.

- We watched from an airport café as 20 police clad with batons and riot shields stood around doing nothing while hundreds of loud angry men blew air horns, whistles, and vuvuzelas in the airport terminal, disrupting the ability to get through security and probably causing some hearing loss to themselves and us.

- We left on vacation anyway. 

North American hiatus lasts until the end of June.  A bientôt!