"Right now I am sitting in the Detroit airport waiting for my flight to Harrisburg, PA. Weren’t you just there, you might ask? Yes, I was…for “work”. But this trip is for pleasure. One of my Brasilian friends, Tamara, married an American from Pennsylvania and they are here visiting his family for a few weeks. I’ll be spending the next few days with Tamara and Chris sightseeing in Philadelphia. It will be great to see her and I’m praying my Portuguese will miraculously return! Not likely, though.
I flew out of Kansas City this morning at 6am. I really don’t like flying out of anywhere else but Des Moines because I don’t like having to drive 2-3 hours once I land just to get home. But this same flight from Des Moines was $400 more expensive than flying out of KC. So I drove to KC yesterday afternoon and I’m not looking forward at all to the drive home. But I’m not thinking about that yet! Once I arrive in Harrisburg today I will have lunch with my regional administrator from ABWE and his wife before Chris and Tamara pick me up. I AM looking forward to that! I’ll try to blog about my trip and post some pics but I’m not making any promises! I will at least post pics when I get home."
It turns out that my Portuguese did return (for the most part) and I didn't have access to internet service while in PA so I wasn't able to blog or upload pics. I had some interesting people on my flight from Detroit to Harrisburg as you can see in this pic...
I had a nun and 2 Amish girls on my flight. That was a first for me!
I'm home now and it was a good trip. My friend, Tamara, recently found out that she has a brain tumor. So I especially wanted to make this trip work to spend time with her before she has surgery for her biopsy once they get back to Brasil. We had fun together talking and laughing and walking (literally) all over Philly! But we saw a lot! At the end of the first day we were pretty far from where we had parked the car so Chris said he would go get it and come pick us up where we were. Both Tamara and I needed to use the bathroom so we went inside one of the really, really nice hotels near us to use the restroom in the lobby. At first Tamara didn't believe we could do that b/c you can't in Brasil. I said sure we can. Just walk past the doorman, smile and say hi! When we found the bathroom even it was incredible!! Inside each "stall" - which really was more like it's own room - there was not just toilet, but a sink with a basket full of real hand towels for you to use. She thought that was pretty cool...and so did I!
You can click here to see pics of my trip.
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