This week, I was copying files to an external hard drive and came across videos Sara, my sister, and I had taken when we went to Rome for New Year's 2006. Sara also came over to London the following Christmas.

I'm so glad we had a chance to do fun traveling together while we were both young and single, but my best memories aren't of seeing the pope in Rome (though we did, and that makes TWO popes I have seen in real-life. I saw Pope John Paul II when I was in Rome in 2003) or of our sight-seeing in the UK. I remember our goofing off and watching TV together, and going shopping for Christmas dinner (salmon and potatoes) at Marks & Spencer's, and Sara subsequently spilling dinner on the street on the way home. Ok, rather a baguette fell out of her shopping bag, but for some reason, it was really funny at the time.

We have shows that defined the trips, as well. The first trip, it was the Office, watched on my brand new iPod. The second trip, it was the sixth season of the West Wing at my bosses' house in Notting Hill, which they had graciously lent us while they were out of town. Everything, and I mean everything, shuts down in London at Christmastime, so we literally spent days watching the WW. AND we watched Thelma and Louise, and may I quote my little sister's response when Thelma and Louise drive off the cliff at the end: ""They'll never make it to Mexico!""

My innocent baby sister, I love you and I'm so glad we're friends!!