Guess who found out Top Ramen has MSG?  This girl.  :)  We were good enough to ask whether the Chinese food in that Siena, Italy restuarant had "solo sodio glutanate" (evidently that does not translate well into Chinese, b/c they had no idea).  We were also good enough to ask at the "bad Chinese" place on base today.  The answer was "yes" although we were hoping for a "no" since we had already scoped out our meal choices.  The server did not seem very understanding of our response: "oh...MSG...we cannot eat here; she's pregnant" furthering the notion that Europeans do NOT fret about as many things as Americans.  Parisians still eat soft cheeses, Italians still drink wine &amp; eat prosciutto.  So those two lunches of beef ramen were my last.  For anyone who did not previously know:  the noodles of ramen while virtually tasteless and without nutrition are okay, but that "flavour packet" is laeden with MSG.

We are looking forward to camping again this weekend.  Rumour is that there are kayaks &amp; paddle boats available.  :)    Kids &amp; dogs welcome.  Anyone want to come?