The Best-Laid Plans

So many adventures! I had such good intentions of posting every day that I had wifi, but wifi on the canal was rarer than expected and then this happened:

I slipped and fell down the companionway and pulled the hatch down on my hand. Ow. It’s just cracked, so the worst part of breaking my finger was it meant the end of using my DSLR for several weeks. And typing was also a bit painful for the first few days. I still took lots of photos with my iPhone, though. What really killed the blog posting was this:

Well, not actually that particular meal, just the circumstances. When we got back to Paris and I thought out loud about going to the hospital to have my hand looked at, my husband mentioned that he’d been having some tightness in his chest and maybe he would go with me … to shorten that story, he needed an angioplasty. It went very well, don’t worry, and he’s feeling great now. I got to spend three days immersed among native French-speakers, which improved my fluency dramatically, and my vocabulary increased quite a bit. I devoutly hope I never need most of those words again, though. (“Urgences,” “soin intensif,” and “coronarographie,” for starters.) And apparently the food at Saint Joseph’s was excellent!

I do plan to post more photos from the trip – we went to a Burgundian vineyard, half a dozen cute little towns along the canal, two flea markets, and the medieval Hôtel Dieu in Beaune, and I know you would hate to miss all that.