The final countdown has begun! I’m currently sitting in the Wichita, KS airport, waiting for my post-Christmas vacation flight back to Minneapolis. Back home, I’ll have 48 hours to unpack and repack for my 9:30PM departure to Paris, via Amsterdam, on January 1, 2008. This trip holds many firsts for me: first time across the Atlantic Ocean, first time to a country where I don’t know any of the native …continue reading