I don't want to worry you nice people, but Waldemar's car was towed last night so I no longer have a drive to airport. I'm going to try to get there right now and stay there (it's about 4:30pm and the flight leaves at 6:50am). Tomorrow is a holiday here and I don't want to chance anything. It's a good thing I've already shifted my sleep - I won't fall asleep at the airport. That's right folks, I'm already on Eastern Standard Time. I knew my weird sleeping habits would come in handy.

See you in Canada.

Just over two days left. I'll be flying into Montreal at 11:50am on Wednesday the 15th. Actually, here's the whole schedule:

Leave Nice: 6:50am
Arrive Frankfurt: 8:30am
Duration: 1h 40m
Airline: Lufthansa

Leave Frankfurt: 10:00am
Arrive Montreal: 11:50am
Duration: 7h 50m
Airline: Air Canada

The 15th is a holiday here, so I'm going to get a ride to the airport at around mignight or so and just hang out there until my flight leaves. I have The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring to finish.

I don't know how much I'm going to be updating this journal when I get back, but at least one more round of pictures (of Germany) will be posted. Thanks for sticking with this thing for 3 months ... that's some good dedication. :) I look forward to seeing all of you.

Until then ...

9 days to go ...

Yep, a countdown is necessary. heh. Still don't know what time my flight is leaving/arriving on the 15th, but I can tell you this: instead of going Nice-Paris-Montreal-Ottawa on Air France, it's going to be Nice-Frankfurt-Montreal on Lufthansa. It was all I could get on short notice during peak season ...

Dale has gone to Canada and won't be back before my last day, the 14th - so work is going to be relaxing, if that's possible. I've been spending a lot of time here just doing side-projects and fooling around. You can take the man off the Internet but you can't take the Internet out of the man ...

Went to the Carrefour (not spelled right) yesterday in Antibes. The place was packed like it was Christmas because it's closed on Sunday. It is one of the biggest stores I've ever seen - it's like a Walmart attached to a huge supermarket. There isn't anything you can't buy there ... now imagine thousands of people walking around aimlessly like they were in there for the first time. At least people in North America know how to walk the aisles. :)

One cool thing about the shopping carts here: the back wheels swivle like the front ones so you can pull it sideways! Truly amazing. It would be a lot harder to manage a stack of a couple dozen of them though.