What the...?  Who the...??  The temps have shot back up into the 70's though it is still grey.  Flowers are starting to bloom again while the trees are finally losing their leaves, from sheer exhaustion I'm thinking.  Today is our first day of autumn vacation.  Grace is in the city with friends for a sushi lunch, then off to spend the night at one of the girls' places.  This friend's grandfather was the designer of the original Fiat 500!  How cool is that!  Big bucks but they seem to be very normal people, a rarity with the monied crowd at the school.   One of the girls with them is newly arrived from Zambia where her father, an Italian "businessman" and Zambian National, is under investigation for government corruption and fraud.  I guess he decided it was a good time to repatriate the family.  Curiouser and curiouser.  I'm home packing and cleaning before we leave early Wednesday morning for Dublin.  I'm so excited!  We're back on Sunday, so no news till then.  Happy Halloween!       xxoo me