TWENTY

Art imitating life at SFO

2018 week twenty

We were surprised that one leg of our trip was on a Virgin airplane. It was fancy. V couldn't get over how exciting it was having a personal TV...

Early morning river trail walk with my friend of nearly 21 years! It was so amazing to just be able to chat for hours in the gorgeous cool morning. It was even more amazing that she brought me a few buckets of cherries from her childhood house! 

My little brother graduated from college. This is the only photo I could catch of him. 

Waiting for commencement with Oma. 

Veronica and the puppy really connected. She would have lived in his puppy enclosure if I had let her. 

Look at her tired little eyes. I don't think she got enough sleep even once on this trip. 

We got to briefly (too briefly!) visit one of my favorite people. Her family name is Veronica's middle name. They are special to us. I unfortunately DIDN'T take a photo of when we visited another old friend and her horses. V got very special treatment and her teenage daughter did her makeup (even contouring). It was her first time being made up and she was very proud and shy. I wish I hadn't been too busy soaking up every word of our visit to pause and snap a photo.

Editorial-style photo by Vera.

"See Mama, I told you it would work! I can draw tattoos on my face with a pencil. You were wrong. I knew it would work."

Playing in the carry-on sizer at the beginning of a travel day from hell. First airport: 5 hours. No flights.

Second airport 2.5 hours away: 7 hours. Had to buy a last minute red-eye ticket home. 

First airport compensated us with free lunch that had me locked in here for 2 hours with food poisoning. Ugh. Shrek saved V though. She was amazingly patient.

Quotes:

Matthew

When I gave him a plate of really delicious banana pancakes: "Hm. Is the texture supposed to be similar to raw dough?"

Theodore

T- "What's that noise?"
Me- "Maybe it's just the mailman."
T- "With a package for us?"
Me- "Maybe."
T- "A package full of JUNE BUGS?!"

"Is Gollum dangerous? He has bad nails."

T- "I have this?"
Me- "You need to ask Veronica."
T- "Yeah, but she will say no."
Me -"You still have to ask."
T- "Then I will take it from Roanica and say 'TAKE'!"

"My dad does that..." Theodore's stock phrase. When he pretends, he calls his father "Dad" and likes to tell me about all the crazy and wild things his "Dad" does at work. This "Dad" is a separate entity from Matthew who is "Papa".


Veronica

T - "I be a fish!"
V- "Sometimes I wish I could be a Papa fishing..." This sounded more ominous than I think she intended.

"This is as crispy as a cocoon!"

"You're really lucky you have this kind of daughter."

"I'm an incredible ballerina."

Unprompted, unscripted: "Texas is better than any of the planets even better than the North Pole!"