How many countries has Mommy been to?

Ronnie tried to guess the other day. Seventeen? sixteen?? He finally bugged me into it. Okay, fifty. He nearly fainted! Meanwhile, I'm thinking "When I was his age, I hadn't been to ANY and here he's been to the U.S.(Ca & NY), Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Morocco, Italy, England and briefly through Ireland & Luxemburg". Not bad for age 7 1/2. I told him "I bet you're the ONLY kid in your school who has a parent who's been to Antarctica". We looked it up in his kiddie Atlas. He asked me which continent it's on. I kept telling him, it's its own continent and finally found it myself. I even showed him the penguins and seals and told him how they're unafraid down there since they never see people. How scary and big the walrus seal was, just a few meters in front of me. How loud it was. There was also a picture of Machu Pichu (sp?). So lovely. Here in France, if somewhere isn't pretty, they say "It's not Peru". Too true!