I’ve never had a drink, but I think the US laws are kind of silly. Either the legal drinking age should be lowered to 18 or the age of adulthood should be upped to 21. Actually, I think 25 would be a rational age to be declared an adult. How many people below that are mature or responsible enough to be considered an adult? I’d say a very small quantity. (Actually, I wouldn’t be opposed to making alcohol consumption illegal. I know it might sound odd that I’d legalize prostitution but am against alcohol, but you never hear about someone killing or crippling themselves and others due to too much sex.)

My brother went to Europe recently and he didn’t have a nice thing to say about Paris. He said it was dirty and smelly.

I’m not a big fan of Ido, personally. No, it’s not because I’m an Esperanto nutcase, but because they nixed too many of the good features to give a comfy feeling to speakers of Western Romance languages.

@Andrea: No, I’m not going to Portugal, but Madrid was nice.

@Fabiola: Eels sound pretty gross. Laura confirms that you can buy baked goods at convents, though, so we’re going to find a good place to do that.

@Luke: Yeah, I’ve enjoyed hanging out with the locals. It’s definitely the way to go.