UMTravels

Up early for me – 7:30. Ready to get the day going with cornmeal encrusted back bacon and French Toast (from the leftover bread from the weekend — no waste here!)

A morning of relaxing and reading the New Yorker.

A late lunch with Tom and his boyfriend — a salad with tandorri chicken breasts sliced over the top and a glass of wine or two since we still can’t drink the water.

Tom and Stephen (the BF) run me to the train at 4pm for a 6pm train. Business class seat. Nice view. Home at 10pm. A quiet day all and all. Well, that was the plan. Yes, they got me there…. but they couldn’t get the train there, so I am on a 5pm BUS (not happy, no snacks, no paper, no dinner) that gets stuck in traffic for an hour, then manages to get one passenger bumped from the bus at the boarder (the train clears customs at the train station in Vancouver), pick up a transient, the driver doesn’t realize, the passengers point out, the bus turns around to drop him back at the border after another wasted half hour, and I get home a tad bit cranky with no dinner.

Just enough time to get a snack, throw laundry in, try and pack for the 7:45am flight to Phoenix to spend turkey day with the family.

Bed at midnight, alarm set for 5am!