The Aerie

Two hours

We're on our last two hours. Everything is packed and ready to go.

Just enough time for one last cup of coffee from the automagic coffee machine (push the button: it grinds the beans and produces a cup of espresso; push the second button, hot frothed milk). Just enough time to cook some bacon, fry an egg or two, and eat my last breze saved from yesterday.

In a couple of hours one of our hosts' parents will arrive to kindly drive us to the airport. Then after all the liquids are removed from our bodies and our sphincters are all inspected we will be packed like cattle into the tiny seats and flown home. Our plane flies so fast that we will arrive only three hours after we leave - by the clock at least. That means that the plane will fly only slightly less fast than the planet spins.

Took the boys to 'Ultra Comix' yesterday for the last time while I ran over to Saturn to pick up a replacement for my lost cel-phone cord. Of course upon returning home I found my cell phone cord. D'oh! I also grabbed a couple of final tourist photos of a very whimsical fountain in the middle of town. Nothing shows the different attitudes towards sex and death between Europe and America more than a public fountain with a life-size depiction of Death having Sex in a public fountain. It's creepy.

So we'll make breakfast, clean up, climb in the van, and off we'll go.

Five weeks have sure passed fast!!

Posted by Albatross at August 31, 2006 12:20 AM | TrackBack