If it's Saturday, I must be in SF

5.30 am

After four months in the Netherlands and two weeks of city-hopping through France and Spain, I finally get the "If it's Tuesday, it must be Belgium" thing. We had a most wonderful trip - I'll be posting pictures on facebook once I get them downloaded from the cameras. Not too jet lagged (although I am up at 5 am, but that's mostly because I fell asleep around 5 pm last night)

A few highlights from the trip:

-- The catacombs in Paris, where the bones are stacked to make patterns in the wall - thigh bones resting on each other make the basic background, and skulls are used to make hearts, crosses, and other interesting shapes.

-- Opera in Lyon - Lulu - a story in which, if I understood correctly, everyone ends up dead except the lesbian, who vows to study the law so that she can work for women's rights.

-- Watching the Arsenal/Manchester United soccer match at the only British pub in Alocossebre, a little tourist/retirement town about 2 and a half hours south of Barcelona.