A couple of quick items
Today the Helena Henleys gathered with the Hoover Henleys along with a bunch of their friends for a kind of official farewell party as they complete their move to Lynchburg. We cooked a bunch of hot dogs and hamburgers while the kids swam and the adults mostly shared laughs and memories. It was a good time--very bittersweet. As I write this, Mike is flying back to Lynchburg so he can get to work bright and early tomorrow. Later tonight he'll be sleeping in their new Virginia home (on a blow up mattress since the movers won't come for a couple of weeks). Jen and the kids will head up there in a couple of weeks after the move is finalized.
Mike also has a suggestion for our next poll based on his preliminary research of the Paris dining scene. I'll launch that poll and tell you more about that after we wrap up the current poll on shopaholism.
Okay, so Teri is just back from a surprise scouting trip to Paris last week. She reports that Paris was a little hotter than she expected and that fashions in the vicinity of Paris have taken a turn for the worse.
Okay, okay. It's not that Paris. Teri was actually in Las Vegas for a couple of days for a gathering of advertising professors and had these pictures taken in front of the Paris Casino. It was 107 degrees while Teri was in Vegas last week, so it couldn't have felt much like the real Paris, and Teri says that the fashion sensiblilities of Vegas are also pretty much incompatible with those of the fashion obsessed French.
Don't believe me? Well, I've got proof. Here are a couple of pictures of Teri in front of the Arc de Triumphe and the Eiffel Tower. They're a little blurry because they were taken with her cell phone, but I promise they're genuine.
Okay, okay. It's not that Paris. Teri was actually in Las Vegas for a couple of days for a gathering of advertising professors and had these pictures taken in front of the Paris Casino. It was 107 degrees while Teri was in Vegas last week, so it couldn't have felt much like the real Paris, and Teri says that the fashion sensiblilities of Vegas are also pretty much incompatible with those of the fashion obsessed French.
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Sorry about the fuzzy cellphone pic. If you could actually see my shirt, you would see that it has fleur de lis on it.
An aside on Vegas--weirdest moment. I was in an old casino--dark paneling and the works with a player piano eating $1.99 shrimp coctail (the bargain of the trip) and the piano starts playing the Lord's Prayer. At first it seemed really inappropriate, but later when I played penny slots and lost $25 in record time I began to think there might be more fervent prayers going on in those casinos than in most churches.
Thanks for doing the cooking today Hank! I felt like I didn't get to really talk to y'all at the pool. I am home alone tonight...enjoying a glass of wine in my Birmingham wine glass. I am sad to be leaving you guys...but am glad we have Paris to look forward to. I think Teri will win the current poll. Jen
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