The Things Worth Waiting For

I wonder how the light will look.  Will it be bright and glaring?  Will it be soft and diffused?  I wonder how the coffee will taste.  Bitter?  Sweet?  (probably still disgusting as I don't drink coffee, but potentially worth pondering just the same)  I wonder what the people will be like.  Will they be helpful?  Or rude?  Above anything else I wonder.....how bad will my French be?

So here we are, exactly 98 days out from our trip to Paris.  The tickets are booked, the hotel is reserved.  Five years of saving and twenty-five years of waiting.  We made a plan.  We stuck with that plan.  And in 98 days we're going to fulfill that plan, horrible French and all.