COUNTDOWN - DAY 4

Oh my gosh!  Four more days in Paris...I can hardly believe it.

Today is a typical fall/winter day in Paris.  It's cloudy and cold...about 52 degrees and light rain off and on.  I won't miss the cloudy days.  Cold and rainy is okay but the continuous cloudy, gray skies are hard for me.

Again today we spent the morning going over all our packed suitcases rearranging and weighing and rearranging and weighing.  What a hassle!!!  Somehow we have more stuff than we have suitcases so are now trying to figure out the answer to this problem.

Yesterday we finally just stopped and I told David to try and not think about it.  It's not going anywhere and we still have several days to work it out.  But, as I suspected he would, he was up early and had a plan by the time I got up at 8:00.

Instead of buying a new piece of luggage, we are going to check six bags total but two of those will be over the 50 lb weight limit, plus we will carry on two bags.

We stopped at noon again today to have lunch with Tim and Maja Vance, our Associate Pastor and his wife who are leaving in December to take a church in Santa Monica, California.  We have worked with Tim for the past two years on Bloom so have gotten to know him well.  He's a wonderful young man,  and we were so glad to have the opportunity to sit down with him and Maja to hear about their new calling.  We know God is going to use him in a great way in California...and he'll have the beach!!!!

I'm grateful for these lunch rendezvous since they take us away from the chaos of packing!  We chose to eat outside though (there were heaters but they didn't get us warm enough) and now we're freezing!    We'll try to finish things up today so that tomorrow it will just be about packing those last minute items before we have lunch with Scott Herr, our Senior Pastor, then check into the hotel.

No pictures today...maybe tomorrow!