Shampoo and lotion are a normal something something to explode and get all over your suitcase when flying. How about finger nail polish remover. Yes indeed that was the exploding bottle of choice. But naturally I am a smart packer at this point in my life and have all my bottles of stuff in plastic bags. But it still did quite number on my stuff, everything stank of nail polish remover, and that is not nice. But after a good cleaning and airing out my bag over night things were put to right….Stupid bottle.
On another note I would like to report that a ziplock bag of original Krispy Kreme doughnuts when put in a shoulder bag between a laptop and a book and make the long trip from the USA to Northern Ireland, do eventually become flattened like pancakes. Here is the important part… these pancake like doughnuts taste just as good! I have continued eating them the couple days I have been here and despite the laughs from other people I stick by my decision that they are as good as ever…in fact I think I will eat another one right now!
Nail Polish Remover and Doughnuts
Starting Again
Well here I am back in North Carolina, with 23 children and 5 other wonderful chaperones. I have only been here for two days but have already dove into cooking meals, grading school exams, and taking walks to the lake in 105 degree weather. It is all great. Today the excitement was shoving the kids all out the door into an hail of water balloons, which I am told is a normal Saturday event. I have been to this house so many time it kind of feels like I have never left, and it is good to be back home.
Bedbugs
Good night
Sleep tight
Don’t let the bedbugs bite
Yeah well let me tell you a thing or two about bedbugs. New York, that is where it all happened. I am in bed in my hotel room with my three sleeping children in the bed next to mine, and I am watching a movie on my computer when out of the corner of my eye I see a small bug crawling on my pillow. Well I brush it away and don’t think much of it, bugs are around now and then…no big deal.
In the morning I have several large bites on the back of my shoulders, and as the morning goes on more and more big red bites keep showing up. The itching is starting to drive me crazy. So I figure it must be bed bugs. This was a three night stay so I switched to a new room for the second night, but by then it was too late. I had over a hundred bites show up by evening. And these bites were turning into huge welt like hives. By the middle of the next day I ended up going to a walk in clinic because I was starting to react to the hundred some odd bites. Three medications later I am doing much better. Lucky for my kids I was the only one attacked. So far that is my one and only experience with bedbugs and I really would like it to be my last.
Kick and Run
You hear of cars hitting pedestrians but how often do you hear of, or see, a pedestrian hit a car? We were on our bus, stopped at a red light, downtown Montreal. On the other side of the intersection there is a person crossing the street on a don’t walk sign and a car comes along to make a right turn on their green light. But this takes the car in the path of the person crossing the street. This is when the pedestrian decides to kick the car as it is passing by because he is mad at it. That is right…He kicks the car and hits it as well. So the car stops and the driver and the pedestrian start yelling at each other. Eventually the lights all change and they both have to get out of the way. I was truly amazed. The pedestrian was in the wrong, yet he still had the nerve to attack the car!
Our Last JOH Show
We are coming to an end of our Journey of Hope theater tour. Tomorrow is our last concert. It is a bitter sweet end to this part of our trip. On one hand it will be nice to change the pace of things by switching back to our church show, and to have a bit more of a predictable schedule. The bitter part is that we are having to say good bye to many of our team members. Because they are here specifically for the theater show they are now all going their own ways in just a couple days. It will be quite sad to see them all go, they are all good friends. We have worked hard together, and shared many laughs and good times together.
Coffeeville
I think this is where I would like to go and live!!!
Just go and sit and drink coffee all day.
