Trial Blog from a Luddite

COMING SOON TO A PLACE NEAR YOU...THE BERGSON'S BLOG.  L'avventuragrande refers to our big adventure.  Just over seven weeks to go and counting.
   There is so much to do in preparation.  The house is rented starting mid-June 2013 for a year to a family coming from Melbourne Australia - one of our destination points.  They have twin 4-year olds and a 2-year old, so we can leave all the grandkid's books, toys and games, inlcuding a huge doll house Roger's dad built for Tasha's Sunshine Family - Barbie-sized but with normal body proportions - dolls from when she was a kid.  That means fewer items going into storage, which is a good thing.  The dad will be visiting faculty at UW in biochem.  Roger found someone to take Hersey for a year.  Now, if only I could sell my 6' wide loom.  This weekend I'll take it apart and we'll move it out early next week to storage.  All of the windows have been replaced in the house.  The yardcare folks come Monday to do a spring cleanup and spread bark.  The quarter at UW ends next week, so no more classes until we return.  Roger doesn't exactly realize this yet, but our 3-week tour of the Po Valley and Florence in the Fall will be paying homage to Dante.  (I have been taking a fabulous class in La commedia, The Devine Commedy, this quarter.)
  We get to see Kelsey and Greyson this weekend.  There is no end to how much we will miss them, but hopefully we will at least see them several times over the Summer, since we will be back in Seattle the second week in June and they will be in CA for Tuvya's bar mitzvah in September.  I hope we can get them down for a cousins weekend during the Summer, too.  (Read that:  Bubbe and Popa's weekend with all four grandkids.)   Of course, we will all four grandkids starting Sept 11 when we leave for Northern Italy.
The big adventure has four stops:  Northern Italy, Australia, New Zealand, and Southern Italy.  Then we return home some time in June 2014.