Archive for August 28th, 2008
1. Natalia, 2. Jose, 3. Dolfinn, 4. Nicole, 5. Mehrdad, 6. Maria, 7. The Flying Ace, haha, 8. The Birthday Girl, 9. young aviator, 10. Mr. Bashful, 11. right between the eyes, 12. eat your heart out, Amelia Earhart
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As you can tell by the ultra-light blogging, I’ve been rather preoccupied these days — with houseguests, work, photography, travel planning, you name it. Besides the big brunch crowd last Sunday, I had a houseguest from France over the weekend, and a few hours after he left on Monday, my Austrian houseguests arrived. The spare room has been pretty busy!
The last few days have been special — the Austrian couple are longtime friends of my Quebec City host, Georges, so I tried to ensure they received every bit of the hospitality I experienced at the beginning of the month at Georges’ place, 800kms away. And here’s where it gets a little confusing: I met Georges because I first met his younger son, Sam, a few months ago here in Toronto. (At the time I didn’t know Sam is from Quebec City, but as my luck would have it, that’s where I wanted to visit and came across this info while searching for a host.) Georges’ older son, Simon, is currently touring Europe and stayed with the Austrians multiple times, but they’d never met Sam. Sam, who’s a flight attendant and recently moved to my neighbourhood, arrived from Paris yesterday afternoon and phoned me just before I went out to meet the Austrians downtown for dinner. So I picked him up and drove us to the restaurant, where we surprised the Austrians and they met him for the first time! They left today to drive to Georges’ place, so last night was the best opportunity for everyone to meet.
I love it when things work out this way!
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