Safe and sound.
She says Paris was a mixed bag. She said the food was awful! Say whaaa????? She said she threw up a couple times because the food was so bad and because everybody smokes. Rory and a couple other kids got really sick. Big fat bummer to be barfin' in Paris. She said the people were really rude. No surprise there. The French are famous for their rudeness and we Americans don't get the respect we used to.
But she had a good time. She said over and over that Paris is beautiful. She said the Eiffel Tower is really pretty.
The first thing she wanted to do when she got home was go to Jack-in-the-box.
She brought us some fun gifts. I got an Eiffel Tower/cow keychain. Seriously, it's half Eiffel Tower, half cow. She also got me some Kama Sutra dice. Each side shows a different position. Kind of an odd thing to get your mom but hey, they're pretty cool. And they're French!
I'm glad to have her home.
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What a bummer she had such a mixed bag of a time.
I went the week Bush declared war and the Parisians were super nice to us...mostly I think it was because tourism was down 70%. A couple of times we were asked if we liked Bush.
Paris is different because, yes a lot of people smoke everywhere and they allow dogs everywhere too. Yep, even in restaurants.
I can't believe they found the food awful, we found it pretty good. Poor kidlets, tossing your cookies is a icky thing.
American snail food jokes aren't as good:
There was once a snail that was sick and tired of his reputation for being so slow. He decided to get some fast wheels to make up the difference. After shopping around a while, he decided that the Datsun 240Z was the car to get. So the snail goes to the nearest Datsun dealer and says he wants to buy the 240Z, but he wants it repainted to read 240-S
The dealer asks, "Why?"
The snail replies, "S’ stands for snail. I want everybody who sees me roaring past to know who's driving."
Well, the dealer doesn't want to lose the unique opportunity to sell a car to a snail, so he agrees to have the car repainted for a small fee.
The snail gets his new car and spent the rest of his days roaring happily down the highway at top speed. And whenever anyone would see him zooming by they'd say "Wow! Look at that snail's car go!"
I love Paris. The rudeness is one of its charms.
Well, that's weird. None of these comments was sent to my e-mail like they usually are. I wonder what's up.
Aloha, Nancy,
I received the usual lot of the usual email and spam yesterday, and when Doni and I tried emailing each other, it worked fine, so I don't understand the problem you had sending to us. If you still have the bounce message, you could send it to us and maybe it would help me find the cause. If it bounces, you can send it to my alternative address at
smithj9{AT}hotmail dot com, fixing that to look like a normail email address. Maybe they still think I'm a spammer!
I apologize to Doni's thousands of other readers for this "emailish" private reply to Nancy's private message in the previous comment. I'm also sending this via email, and I hope that Nancy receives it both ways. Here's the reply (about a cup that she left here while visiting, was then broken, and a long conversation with a very nice Hawaiian vendor who tracked down an identical replacement mug, which was lost in the mail, and then found another one months later):
I'm glad you received the package, hopefully intact, with the exception of the original damaged cup.
I saw you carrying it with you on your visit, and figured that it was dear to you, and of course, the Hawaiian Ukulele theme also seemed wholly appropriate, so it was worth getting a duplicate. I thought that the story was interesting to share and the vendor really did go the "extra mile" to get us a cup! Since it occurred over a period of months, it really didn't seem like much extra effort on my part, but I was sure happy that he found a second (third) copy of the mug just in time for the holidays! (If the second copy of the mug hadn't been lost in transit, it would have arrived possibly in time for your birthday.)
Leg,
That's just one of the side-effects of eating American snails instead of Freedom snails! ;->
- Smarty Pants
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