Suzie wrote:

"All the boys are my LA grandsons who had the same or overlapping spring break. Finn and Dane are Tara’s sons. We four went to Japan two years ago, have enjoyed other travels together and Finn and I spent a week in DC when he was nine. Finn already knew almost as much about the Americans in Normandy as our guide. It was my second trip to Normandy, Bayeux tapestries etc but still a mind expanding emotional trip.

Roman, Anna’s son, joined us in Paris just in time for the fire. Tara and her boys left while Roman stayed long enough to play tourist in addition to joining the weeping throngs at Notre Dame, witnessing a military cordoned off Place de Concorde with a bombed car (didn’t make the news) and have trouble leaving because of closed streets due to the Yellow vests protests.

These boys will never forget their first visit to Paris with more excitement than anticipated, broken and or boarded up shop windows, street closures, numerous vans filled with armed soldiers, armed soldiers patrolling and finally our last day being locked in the Tuileries with only one exit.

Roman and I also have traveled to Seattle and spent a week in DC. His younger brother, Desmond, did not have the same spring break but he and I have traveled a lot including a week in Chicago.

They are all great travel companions who enjoy going with me since I don’t over program but I do abuse them by making them walk everywhere."