From Deirdre..

How do I feel right now? I am preparing in the next hour to leave a job after 9 wonderful years, planning to attend a weekend wedding in New York, then coming home for a week to pack for Europe. I feel like the world awaits and it's mine for the taking...and SOOO much to do before we actually leave - my biggest fear - NOT MAKING OUR FLIGHT!!! In typical hilarious Oss fashion -we push it until the last minute-we forget identification, underwear, tickets, etc.  Most of what we need is online, so as long as we get WIFI in the corners we visit, we feel like success is at our doorstep. :)
 So which parts of the world will we take advantage of first?

ICELAND! 

We'll start in Iceland, land of the midnight sun, to take in a day trip while awaiting our flight to Oslo, Norway. We will spend 3 wonderful days in Norway exploring city and country.

OSLO



We will jet set to Amsterdam for a five-day staycation and day travel around the City by bicycle, by train around Benelux visiting Belgium, Brussels and everything we can in between.

AMSTERDAM


Next Stop: The Rhine River Valley in Germany en route to Switzerland then Italy where we will spend our last of three weeks with my mom's family who will travel to Italy to celebrate multiple retirements, birthday milestones, and well...lots of good wining and dining!

Here's the castle in Germany that - if we can actually find it-will host us for two nights of R&R before our next leg south.

CASTLE LIEBENSTEIN


I'll save the next half for when we actually figure it out. We have a couple of unplanned days to head south, so each kid will get a day to plan, figure out the train system, and tell us where we are going. Nothing will go wrong with that plan, surely...

Stay Tuned!!!!