Well let me tell you.....the most amazing thing happened to me at the start of my vacation. Well before the amazing thing, I was not in the Charles de Gaule airport more than 10 minutes and I had already lost my reading glasses. Without my glasses, I cannot hear. That's just the way I work. However, I found my way to my gate. Gate 51A, destination Montreal. When I got there, I noticed a red, upright, shinny piano. It was beautiful. It was just sitting there. A young girl, maybe 15 years old went and played a few songs. It was for anyone. Then she left. Lots of people were waiting for the plane. Then, all of a sudden, a little girl, maybe 10, sat down at the piano and her family was standing beside her. She started to play a tune that is a duet. She was playing the lower part. Now, you know when something erks you and you just have to do something about it, well I did. I couldn't stand listening to that tune without the higher part. So without even realizing (I do that because I often do things without thinking but it's me we're talking about here) I got up, picked up my stuff and went to the piano and started to play the other part of the duet. The little girl just continued to play without stopping and we played for quite a long time. We just kept going. Finally, I stopped first and then she did, and believe or not, true story, people applauded and we had a standing ovation. Now who can match that. Me, at Charles de Gaule, at Gate 51A, playing the piano with people clapping and an ovation. OK, the people got up at the same time that they announced that it was time to board the plane, so it might not be a standing ovation. The little girl's family thanked me and she looked at me so proud of herself.
Got to Charlottetown at midnight and was greeted with balloons saying wecome home. Kevin was hiding behind them and as soon as he saw me, he said, OK, take these. God forbid if anyone would see him holding balloons. Then all of a sudden, 3 weeks went by and I'm back. In that I had a business trip to Montreal in the first week, then Allen was home for one week, I had lunches, dinners, saw friends then didn't see some of them. I should have put out a seat in the Atrium at work and said I'm here from 2:00 to 4:00. Sorry to the people that I did not get to see. Saw Kevin do CrossFit - not sure if a mother should see that, however, it is pretty, no very intense. Philippe and Becky came over for a few days in my last week. Thank you so much, I needed that. Spent quite a bit of time with Kevin and that was super nice. Had Tim Horton's with my favorite buddy, twice. Next time, I am going ingocnito. Hey, I even met somebody that I had never seen before but reads my blog. Claude, you seem like a pretty cool guy.
What else can I tell you. Oh, I found my glasses 3 days after I was home. They were in my jacket pocket which I had packed before I checked my suitcase. On the plane from Montreal to Charlottetown, the window I was sitting at had ducktape all around it and in the far horizon, there was lightning. I said to the guy next to me, how lucky to you feel. Pretty scary. Good think that I'm brave.
My trip back to France was a little less fun. We landed in Montreal and then the captain says, ladies and gentlemen, this is the captain speaking, we are on Red Alert. Due to lighting, the ground crew cannot come out to the plane. For your safety, we have to keep you on the plane. Red Alert, who says Red Alert to me. Don't they know that I watch alot of movies and have an imagination. I need to catch my plane. The guides need me. I need them. After 30 minutes, we were allowed off. My next plane from Montreal to Paris was not good. There was lots of turbulance or turbulence, whatever....Luckily, I had 3 seats to myself so I could lay down, but we might have been in the air for 30 minutes and they were going by with the food cart, Chicken or Pasta. The lady looks at me and says, you're going to be sick aren't you. My face was whiter than my sweather. She told the guy working with her, move, this lady is not well. I never saw a food cart move so quick. The guy ran down the aisle and she pulled that cart. I made it to the bathroom and was sick as a dog, with nothing in my stomach since the morning. It was deadly. Then they announced, please go back to your seat and put on your seat belt. Hey, I'm staying right where I'm at, laying down on the bathroom floor. Have you ever flushed the toilet in the plane. First it sucks you in, then the air pushes you about 2 feet away. I felt like my whole face was going through the toilet, I was holding on to dear life then, the air pushes you. Great facial though, now that I think of it. Oh what a trip. However, I made it here and have been on gravol since. Tomorrow I start work so I had a few days to rest.
So year 2 has started in this beautiful country of France. New guides arriving, Summer guides leaving. I will be sad when they go. I'm attached to them. I did manage to see past guides in Charlottetown when I was there. Laura, Kariane and André are working at the University so they came to my place the first day I arrived and we went in the hot tub.
I couldn't remember my userid and password for my blog but finally after 2 days, I found it. I was scared there for awhile. I need my blog to keep me going. So here are a few pictures.
So this is it for today. My routine is starting. Already 8:10 pm and I need to get myself something to eat. Hopefully my stomach will hold it.
So glad to have you back on line! Can I take some of the credit for you finding your password, when I mentioned looking in your cahiers? On second thought, I will take credit. Nice pictures. Specially liked the one from our back yard. Yes it does look quite nice, specially with the flowers. But damn, they cost a lot of $$$. That's where my pay check went! Sorry I missed your Facetime call. I figured out why I could not hear the iPad ringing. There is a very little button on the side that needs to be turned on! Funny how that works! We'll have to try again. Dors bien ce soir! L
ReplyDeleteYes you can take the credit for finding my user id, however, I was not looking for that when I found it but you're right, I had written it down. I had the same thing with my IPAD not hearing it. Your backyard looks great.
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