High Notes

On Thursday night Kari, Keenan and Aaron phoned home from a Guinness House on a high point in the City of Dublin, Ireland. The view, they said, was awesome.

They have been welcomed with warmth and open arms by cousins and friends of cousins. The family ties have been renewed.

Earlier in the week ,they took a twelve hour tour of the Highlands from Edinburgh. They passed by Loch Ness .They found the majesty of the mountains completely amazing.

They visited the room in Edinburgh Castle, where great long red bound ledgers bear the names, handwritten. complete with rank and number , of every Scot who fell in World War One and Two. They found my brother's name . They weren't sure of my mother's brother's name so they had no success there. .

On Saturday night, they called from the top of the Eiffel Tower where they were looking down and all around, at the City of Paris. They were suitable impressed with Paris.

From there they were off to three days relaxing on the beach of the French Riviera.This is the start of their fourth week.

They met a couple of Australian girls at a hostel in Ireland. Australian and New Zealand women are extraordinary world travellers. They told the kids is cheaper to fly and of course it's obviously faster. So, they did, from Dublin to Paris.

They won't be home for Thanksgiving.

They will be missed.