1. A kitty sat next to me on a flight
2. Turkish Air has good service and decent food.
3. A film about the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper is as interesting as it sounds.
4. I sat in a middle seat that split down the center. When the girl on my left leaned back to sleep half of my seat went back with hers. No, it was not comfortable.
5. My friend Hiroko speaks at least 5 languages and reads 4 kinds of alphabets.
6. She reads right to left, left to right and up to down.
7. and plays piano and sings beautifully.
8. I'm not jealous at all.
9. Hazelnuts are a gift from God. (learned from an ad by the Turkish Hazelnut Producers)
10. No one in the world should be denied the benefits of hazelnuts. (from same ad)
11. People love to sing in their own language
12. CNN scares me. I've grown accustomed to subdued European news reporting
13. I was paged at the airport as Mr. Augustine Nancy
14. 3 times.
15. My duffle bag ripped open right after I checked in.
16. The plastic bag they stuck it in also ripped, but nothing fell out
17. I wish I spoke Turkish (and Arabic, and Farsi, and Russian)
18. Mark and I passed each other going opposite directions in planes somewhere southwest of Istanbul.
19. Our brilliant plan to switch places being home with the kids by flying on the the same day fell apart when I missed my connection in Istanbul and had to stay the night there, leaving the kids alone.
20. I learned my kids don't need me as much as I need them.
21. It is hard to enjoy a free night in a hotel when you are thinking about your kids being alone.
22. It is also hard to enjoy a free night in a hotel when the wake up call rings at 2:30am, 3:30am and 4:00am when you really wanted to get up at 4:30am.
23. The Istanbul airport has 2 Starbucks. Is that right?
24. Turkey leads the world in pickled products
25. It is good to be home.
3 comments:
Hiroko is amazing. Now if we could just find a language that is written from bottom to top, she could read in every direction!
Was the kitty's name "Milou"? (aka "Mildew")
I really enjoyed your last two posts. I'm inspired to add to my blog. Unfortunately I'm like a blues song writer, the stuff is better when I'm miserable, and right now things are pretty good.
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