May 28, 2007 | Filed under: la famiglia, misadventures
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After much planning and plotting Our Gang headed down to sunny Miami, Florida to visit my Nana on her 86th birthday. My Mother and her hubby, my Aunt and myself have all made this trip separately over the years with my visitation being by far the most lax, having gone once when I was five and then again at twenty (bad, bad, naughty granddaughter, I know). We have never made this pilgrimage as a family. The trip was to be brief–fly down Friday morning, fly back Sunday morning– about as fast and forceful as a blow to the skull with a sledgehammer, which is what we all felt like when we left.
We never knew what hit us.
Music:
Dill Pickles Rag (Xylophone Solo)
William H. Reitz
1922
Courtesy of the Internet Archive
May 28, 2007
@ 5:56 pm
So I see things were “interesting”…..
May 29, 2007
@ 12:05 am
How come all those “right” turns turned out to be “wrong” turns? I can hardly wait to see the next installment.
May 29, 2007
@ 2:09 am
genius. MORE!
“you look thin”
what *is* it with that generation?? i’m sure they think they’re expressing concern and giving motherly attention… and maybe they were brought up in a world where nobody expressed feelings… but COME ONNNN… how do they manage to get it so *wrong*? and especially when it causes so many problems - you’d think they’d eventually start to think “What am i doing wrong?”
Sigh.
Maybe it’s not a generational thing. Maybe we’ll all turn out to be that way, too. I can’t wait til my daughter comes to see me and says “Happy Birthday!” and I say, “Oh, what happened to your hair?”
May 29, 2007
@ 6:18 am
Oh, Rupert: that is my big fear. That we’re ALL going to turn out that way! Sort of auto-pilot judgemental. It may be inevitable…
But don’t worry, in 55 years I’ll bet your daughter really WILL have done something odd with her hair by our standards! Then you’ll just be right!
May 29, 2007
@ 9:35 am
Can’t believe your nana hugged you given how rude you were about the beige towels…
May 29, 2007
@ 1:55 pm
I thoroughly enjoyed this!
May 29, 2007
@ 2:15 pm
Yay nana hugs!
Family chasms, yes i am familiar with those…
May 29, 2007
@ 7:12 pm
Honey, your family is my family and my family is your family so don’t worry
June 5, 2007
@ 11:56 am
Oh I love it! Every family has their Shtuff and none is above it. Here’s to laughing through the rough spots because we were gifted with a sense of humour!
Thank you for posting.