Extendedstay Elizabeth

... For a government agency, they were pleasantly efficient and I had my 10 year passport within two hours, for yet another painful fee. I stayed the night with my folks, played show-and-tell with pictures, had great Chinese food and got a fantastic nights sleep.
The next day I spent some quality time with my Mom and made some photo copies of my passport, just in case. I packed up and headed to J.F.K. for the ...

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... and I since we were born and now we’re all a bit older and have kids; and time slowly moves us forward. It was great to see them.

The very next day, my parents and I, visited a whole new side of our family. My mother’s father’s brothers’ daughters’ family. Seriously. It turns out, we have some religon in our family after all. Zapora and ...

... and was better than Famous Rays. After lunch Kelsie wanted to change before the play so we went back to the hotel for a few minutes. It was raining now and we didn't have our umbrella's with us so we walked very briskly. We had tickets to the 2:00 matinee of Wicked. It is playing across the street from our hotel so it was just a quick walk to get there. It was great. We saw it in Salt Lake the Saturday before ...

... everything was going to be ok, and while I was just being a little sissy north American in comparison, I still felt reassured by the way she was speaking.   We continued to talk for the next 30 minutes; she told me about her life in the Indian military, and now after retirement helping run the family shop in Vellore, and I told her about my experiences in India.  After we had chatted for a while, she noticed the time, and said that her brother would be ...

... it doesn't take long reading the site to figure out which white people I'm talking about. It's mostly left-wing, upper-middle-class. In the book, you also occasionally mention "the wrong kind" of white people. Who are the wrong kind of white people? There are a lot of the wrong kind of white people. You have, obviously, poor, right-wing white people, and rich, right-wing white people. Yet a lot of the stuff you write that white people like, obviously many other people ...

... owned businesses, many of which sold things other than toilet paper. Passing by my favorite grocery store when I find myself needing large amounts of fresh tahini, The Fertile Crescent (great name), I made my way to a place where I could get some lunch. I had some falafel, and some baklava, and then went into a different store, to buy some of nature's favorite bleached and softened paper for the bathroom. While standing in line, I noted both that the air ...

... you to buy them. A lot of 'world music' doesn't have that, but some does. It's not about language. It's about a minor key making you sad, and a major key picking you back up, all done with style and grace, and a catchy rhythm getting you up on your feet wheth** you like it or not. The first revelation with my forays into world music was that the lyrics really don't matt** that much, not always, c**tainly. When they're stellar ...

Teale and I are both the kind of people who like to get to the airport early. Therefore we arrived at 4:30 for our 7:45 flight, you know, just to be safe. Little did we know that our flight was to be delayed until midnight which will land us in London 5 minutes after our connecting BMI flight in London departs. Yay Air India!!!! So, we have lots of time in the airport. Good thing we enjoy each others company. We can't wait to get ...

... for the cheaper version. ALSO, it was the only time you can go at night, and we wanted to see the sunset and coastline at night... Thursday, we toured the Metropolitan Museum of Art....THAT was cool :) I think I would have enjoyed it more if I weren't so physically tired :) I just felt like I was draggin all day. After that, we just wandered the Upper East Side FOREVER looking for a cheap place to eat--not ...