Hey there! (How quickly we revert to ‘Southern!’)
More adventure! Traveled back to the USA to visit ma famille et mes amies…taxi to the station, train to Paris Bercy, walk to the Metro, subway to Denfert-Rochereau to connect with the RER train to Charles de Gaulle aeroport…DELTA ONE (#SPOILEDFORLIFE – can you say lie flat seats on a 10 hour flight?!) to Atlanta, more shenanigans through customs and immigration, and then straight to Mex with Brendan! Ahhhhhhhhh. Real Mexican American enchiladas. <grin>
Disorienting universe shift – step OUT of our new home, step OUT of France, step INTO the USA, step BACK into my childhood home and city. Feels completely mental!
But it’s awesome to be in Tulsa, Oklahoma (Mom, Myrna, Larry, Cheryl, Joan, the ‘aunts’), where the wind comes sweeping down the plain (click to sing along)…much more wind here than in Chicago, which is mis-awarded the label of ‘The Windy City!’ Soon back to Atlanta (Brendan & Soraya!), to Greenville, South Carolina (FRIENDS!), and Augusta, Georgia (Robert & Leslie!). Whirlwind trip!
Brendan “popped in” from Atlanta just for lunch and a quick trip to the casino, with a stop at Braum’s, of course!
Already hit the grocery store for all the ‘staples’ that we just don’t have in France…Liquid Smoke, Noxema, meat tenderizer! HAHA. Such first-world problems! And SHOES…NEVER thought this would happen, but gone are my days of cute shoes. At least for now. I need shoes to withstand the cobblestones of Europe. Not pretty, but 100% essential!
Have you ever heard the axiom that you are never staying still, but either moving forward or backward? I can feel my French vocabulary slipping away on a daily basis, being currently immersed in English! 🙁 I’m attempting to read a ‘young adult’ French translation of Agatha Christie’s The Body in the Library, trying to maintain!
Three and ½ weeks before mon marie and I leave for Amsterdam and Keukenhof, South Holland. SPRING!
Fun Facts: The average French person eats 500 snails each year. [They can have mine.] And the French people consume 11.2 billion glasses of wine each year. [I’ll drink to that!]
Enjoy these last weeks of winter….
À bientôt!
Mindy
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to ALL PEOPLE [Even those weird neighbors that trash their yard…or those hateful protesters…or that guy-person in the 5” high heels I saw in downtown Tulsa in the Brady district…]
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