Greetings from the AmaLegro!

Howard and I (Whitney) are currently sitting in the lounge of this lovely river cruise ship, docked in the charming town of Petit Andelys, France … laptops out and hard at work.

When work is cruising down the Seine River with a group of 50 wonderful people … life is good.

Marilyn is handing the blog over to the rest of our CTP team while she focuses on getting back to 100%.  I am by no means the writer our fearless leader is… however I do love photos!  So, I’m gladly stepping in to share some of our favorite moments from this trip – starting with Bruges.

If you’ve read the blog the past two weeks (Poop! and Re: Poop!), you know all about Marilyn’s current situation, and how our team stepped in with a couple hours notice to take her place managing one of her absolute favorite client’s biyearly programs.

The trip was planned as follows:

• 2 night optional pre-trip in Bruges, Belgium
• 4 night business meeting in Amsterdam
• 7 night optional post-cruise along Seine River – roundtrip Paris

As you can imagine, there was a lot that needed to be arranged/caught up on – especially since neither Gabriel nor I had much involvement in the planning process that Marilyn and Howard began about a year ago.

So, in short, this is how we handled it:

• Gabriel hopped on a plane with only a few hours notice to take over the pre-trip
• He met Howard in Amsterdam to tag-team the business meeting
• I flew to Paris to “tap out” Gabriel and joined Howard for the post-trip

To sum up what was a very crazy, emotional, fun, did I mention crazy? past 2 weeks… the program was très fantastique!

Starting at the beginning, here are a few of our favorite snapshots of the wonderful group and destinations.

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BRUGES PRE-TRIP

Gabriel and I might as well have been ships passing in the night … so I didn’t have the chance to get the full run-down of his time in Bruges, however he was able to email me a few photos before jetting off again (this time to India!).  Here are a few of his highlights:

 

No trip to Bruges is complete without a horse-drawn carriage ride through the fairy tale cobblestone streets…

…or cruising the canals!

The typical sights around town – chocolate & bubbles breakfast, bikes, medieval-style towers.

And of course, we had to make sure Marilyn made an appearance!

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Not bad, huh?

Photoshopping credit to our amazing man on the ground – for the Bruges/Amsterdam portion of the trip – Victor!

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I’ll unfortunately have to cut this blog short because we still have a lot to do (and see and taste!) here in France, but stay tuned next week for the second installment of the trip.

Au revoir!