Tuesday January 15, 2013

Tuesday January 15/13  update #343

Bella came home very late last night from teaching a bridge class and then joining some other Ecuadorian women in a triumphant return to the Cuenca Bridge Club.  Bella and Cathy took my advice and beat the pants off the men to get a measure of respect from them.

This morning she was off again to teach another class while I busied myself getting my gifts for home organized.  I will be going home with 2 virtually empty suitcases.  I am actually going to load 2 backpacks inside my big black suitcase for the trip, and I still might have to use blown-up punch balloons to add some body to the suitcase so it won’t get crushed.  A hard case suitcase is going to fare better when it is solid.

Next I tackled the new shelf unit which came delivered, but put together all wrong.  It is just emergency storage and won’t hold a whole lot of weight.  They were supposed to make the left legs an inch longer to compensate for the floor slope but they had made it front to back instead.  Thank God for electric drills and nut drivers.

Jay came over for a visit to wish me well on my trip so we made popcorn and watched “The Gods Must Be Crazy”.  I had watched this old movie last night but certainly didn’t mind watching it again.   It is a classic from about 32 years ago.

We have had no response at all to my emails to the show organizer, the hotel, or the show service contractor in NYC.  I thought of it too late, to try to delay or hold our shipment from reaching the hotel.  I checked this morning and the 3 cartons totaling 100 lbs were on a FedEx truck at 5:45am and later saw that they were delivered at 12:39pm.  At least we know they have arrived and weren’t refused by the hotel.

That was today’s excitement.   Hugs to all.   No photos today either.