tim's travels

A few weeks ago Geoff and I ran into Cheryl Boutin. She used to be one of Anne's Brownie leaders, a very nice person. Anyway, she said to us, "So what is your son like?" "Which one?" we asked. We were immediately on our guard when she replied that Tim was the one she was referring to. However, we relaxed whe we found out that one of Cheryl's daughters was planning this trip with Tim and a couple of others. Cheryl said that she had been at a funeral (someone lots of people in town knew, he was only 50 and died suddenly), and realized that she couldn't keep putting things off and the time to travel was now. So she decided to go with her daughter, Tim and the others. She has a son living in Germany and Tim thought she was going to stay with him but when they met on Sunday to discuss plans she said, "Are we going to Rome?" So she is planning to do the whole thing. Good for her. Actually her husband died suddenly a couple of years ago, too. He had a heart attack in the doctor's office.