I had a lovely weekend. I went on a fruit eating fetish, and subsisted on a huge salad I made of melon, honeydew, strawberries, peaches, apples and bananas. It was so good. And I got to go sailing in PERFECT weather on Saturday. While there I met a couple, one of whom works at NASA, who have too many Sunfish and said that next time they take them out on the water, they'll give me a call and let me tool around in one of their Sunfish. Yippee!

In other amusement, Karen is scheduled to meet up with Jen in the Aran islands (that's Ireland) this week. Now they started making a plan, but apparently never finished. This is hilarious to me, because of a certain trip to Iceland, Scotland and Ireland that Karen and I took a couple of years ago. We elaborately constructed our itinerary to meet up with Jen in Ireland, only to find that she stopped checking her email and apparently never calls home (we left several messages with her parents). Her idea of meeting was "Let's meet in Tralee on January 3." Hmmm, towns are small, but not THAT small. Anyway, now Karen is experiencing Deja Vu doing the same thing. But its amazing how stuff like this works out. We had all but given up on Jen during our last trip. But low and behold, behind us, in a bus station in Cork, Ireland, there's Jen (and Maggie, another school chum), yelling "BECCA! KAREN! What are you doing here?" We even have the the picture to prove it.

This is all part of my bizarre European coincidence files that prove there is no "road less taken" anymore. For instance, standing in the train station in Munich while backpacking, I hear "BECCA! Becca!" and turn around and there is Kris Koster - a friend of mine from high school, who I knew would be in Europe at the same time I was backpacking, but it is a pretty big continent. Or then there was the time in Florence, where Kim and I were walking up the street, and Kim says "That looks like J.R.'s head", and I respond "Yeah, that looks a little like Joey with him", and low and behold it was JR and Joey, two random Student Gov't people from Georgia Tech who we both knew (we knew they were backpacking on a similar route to ours, but we thought they had already left Italy several days before). That was fun, because we got to tackle them from behind and really scare them :), speaking of which, I think one of them owes me about 30,000 lyre for buying them McDonald's... :)