What a lovely time I had with Mavash & Glynn. They are the most gracious hosts and instantly made me feel wanted and at home. We were blessed with two wonderful days of sunshine and celebrated it by a refreshing walk along some of the back waters of the Potomac. The wind was brisk, almost exhilarating.
On Friday evening, we went to the Kennedy Center - I had never been there - and we saw Carnival. When actors really have fun with their roles, it shows; and these actors really enjoyed portraying their characters for us. It's difficult to know who the playwright might have had in mind as the lead character (you can't always tell by the billing), but I felt the story was about Rosalie, played by Natascia Diaz (I hope I have this right), and she was very enthusiastic in her character. Even though I was time-confused with flying all night and jet lag, I was awake sufficiently to thoroughly enjoy the musical.
The Kennedy Center is huge and contains several theaters. It appears it has suffered some funding deficits to keep it in newer condition. I hope the foundation embarks on some serious fundraising to renovate it where its age is showing. It seems impossible that sufficient time has passed that the Center is no longer new!
On Sunday, much to our surprise, it began to snow and snow and snow.
The snow was wet enough to stick to everything, but not wet enough to be slush. It didn't occur to me that my flight could be postponed - or even canceled, but that's what happened. We went to the airport and rescheduled my flights; and then G picked me up and we went back to the house where I spent a comfortable several hours snoozing on the sofa.
I had never experienced a canceled flight before, so the process was new to me. I was able to rebook my flights electronically at the airport (but I don't think I could have done this over the Internet, unfortunately), and after I confirmed my new booking, I was given a chance to be wait listed for an earlier set of flights, which I did. Much to my delight, I was able to board both wait-listed flights and arrived home about noon our time - about 16 hours after my previously booked time. That was a few hours less than the re-booked flights. I will remember this for the future and not be so iffy about standby bookings. Of course, I had the the booked flights to fall back on so I wasn't too anxious about it, but it was a neat thing that I had never experienced before.
I'm so glad I made the trip. It was a good thing to turn this precious friendship away from work and just to celebrate that the friendship is much deeper than that. I hope we can do this again!
Something I learned from Mavash while I was there. You can resell your books over Amazon. I've purchased used books from Amazon, but have never resold them there. I usually send them to Donna (if they're good books) or donate them to the library (if I don't think she will like them). Ah ha! Now maybe I can lessen the cost of my reading habit! I will certainly give that a try this year.
While I was gone, our packet of information arrived for our Baltic States tour, as well as two tour books I ordered from Amazon. How exciting. We are really looking forward to this trip in May - our birthday and 41st anniversary present to each other. It is so good to be back traveling again, to see people who are dear to me and to enjoy new places with Lauren. Ah, life is much, much too short when you're feeling good and able! I am grateful for these times.
I need to figure out the blend of html blogger is using. I think it would be a lot easier if I pasted this in my html editor (Homesite), edited it, and then pasted it back into blogger. There are things that I don't understand when I insert images. They are funky. This html writer uses divs and not paragraph tags, but I haven't figured out just what the divs mean. Are they defined somewhere I just haven't figured out yet? What would happen if I put some styles at the top of the page and defined some divs? I will have to experiment and see what I can figure out, soon!
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