One thing that people shop for in Egypt is the cartouche pendants; your name in heiroglyphics (I don't even want to know how badly I mangled the spelling on that).

Mark just heard on last night's news about the runway closing at JFK. He was fairly certain that I hadn't heard anything about it, and neither had Delta, and our flight was history. I reassured him. For now.

I'm trying to figure out the most advantageous type luggage. Some of ours needs to be set at the curb, but I don't know what to replace it with. Mark's Tilley blazer came in and was a perfect fit (thanks Pat), so that's taken care of. Nothing like last minute freak-outs, but Andrea had surgery last week and it's been "all hands on deck" for that.

I know I'm not taking any good jewelry. Don't need it, don't want to worry about it. Small stuff, relatively plain wedding ring.