1/7/10 Leavng on the ferry in Cherbourg

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Leaving France

Left this morning and drove to Cherbourg to catch the ferry. This one is an Express so it will only be 3 hours versus the 6 it took us coming. John and Jessie will then leave us at Portsmouth and we will continue by train back into London by ourselves. We have one more day in London (going to the War rooms) and then will fly out on Saturday. Mom and I to KC and Dad back to Yemen for one more hitch. Cross your fingers everyone. He still says he’s retiring. He doesn’t have much time to back out yet. (I’m sure he’d find a way though.)

At the hotel, in London, we decided just to eat downstairs versus wondering around and looking for a restraunt. We looked at the menu, and other than being expensive as all hotel restraunts are here, it looked good. Italian. We went in and all three ended up ordering a dish that said it was open ravioli stuffed with seafood. Now what would that mean to you? I thought fish, crab, and maybe some sort of stuffing to hold it all together. Um, no.

After managing my way through France without ever having to eat anything that could look at me, I got a flat square patch of pasta that was covering mussells. Are you kidding me? I think if you're going to throw mussells in a dish like that there should be a disclaimor. In between the so artfully laid mussells was a miscellaneous assortment of bottom dwelling sea creatures including tentacles of squid and more, as of yet, unknown to man...things. I think Nessie might have been in there somewhere. I never wished I was at McDonald's before.

Dad ate his (he's so cultured). Mom and I filled up on bread and olive oil and told the waitor we were just simply too full to eat our meal.

All I could think of was the Family Guy episode where Stewie turns into an octopus after coming into contact with nuclear waste. Ugh.