i have got this notion that i want to fly to paris on 1/1/03 then take the tgv to biarritz on 1/3/03 and then on to bilbao. bilbao and the guggenheim have gotten into my mind and i can't get them out. i want to ride the subway where the entrance looks like big steel worms. i want to eat tapas and drink a nice red from riojas. of course, i know no spanish beyond gracias and mucho gracias. maybe i will pick up spanish faster than i picked up german........maybe stephan and i could make an excursion of it with rachel and petra- we had a good time on the last trip. andrew may want to come, but will probably want to work and earn some money.....if i got the kids back to school by 1/6/03 or 1/7/03, maybe the school wouldn't be too upset.