DAY 265

Sunday 1 April 2012

Dear blog reader, we're sorry to inform you, but due to the fact that we're sick of each other, we're calling it quits...April Fool's!

Mustard fields through the Dijon region

Photo by Dian

We woke up in front of the Auto Grill and left by 9AM. We saw our first deer in a field (that makes the ratio about 1 to every 5,000 "Deer Caution" signs we'd seen around Europe). We payed the $40 toll just before entering our 26th country, Luxembourg! Forty minutes later we were in Germany, so three countries in one day wasn't bad. Our GPS led us directly to St. Sebastian at his boss Frank's garage. Within one minute of listening to our car he had diagnosed the problem.


For the next eight and a half hours he worked ceaselessly on getting Excalibur/White Rabbit in tip top shape. Charles made two trips to the local Subway sandwich shop and bought provisions.

#26! Photo by Dian

Quite organized.

Ah, Clifford...we meet again.

The fleet.

Coming back from Subway

St. Sebastian! Photo by Dian

We called cousin Roos and Henri to tell them we would be able to spend Easter with them and they invited us to come as early as we would like.

We spent the night in the parking lot of the garage with much lighter hearts.

Our April Fool's jokes:

- Dian told Charles and Nicole there was a man selling stolen hubcaps at the Auto Grill

- Charles exclaimed there was something crawling at the bottom of his coffee cup

- Nicole gave Charles about 10 more gray hairs when she told him the screen to the laptop had come off (it had been having some trouble)

- Dian told her stepson Chris on the phone that Nicole had married a Croatian man, then

- Nicole told her grandparents she was marrying a Frenchman.

All of these pranks were met with dismay, then laughter, and a little bit of sheepishness on the part of the prankster.

Celebratory beer!