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April 26, 2006
Final Preparations
When we arrived in Toronto, we had been anticipating delays with our applications for visas in the US. The day after we arrived, the lawyers sent an email to say that a courier package was on its way. Book your flights.
We had several things to do before we left. Not the least of which were all the things we didn’t know we had to do.
Chis fetched the courier package at sister Kate’s house on Sunday morning. While he was there, he checked the contents of our safe (now Kate’s safe) that she was storing for us. Chis emptied the contents into a paper bag and rushed off to work on whatever was next on his list.
The paper bag sat in our room at David & Alex’s house for the next couple of days, and we began to realize that not everything was going to fit in our bags to be checked. Time to enlist Susan, Kate’s awesome assistant. Chis delivered the paper bag, along with framed prints we took off the boat, and asked Susan to courier it to his office in New York. No problem!
We had dinner tonight with the Lyons’ family. Kate told the story about the paper bag and its contents.
A lid for a Tupperware container
Nozzle for a garden hose
Plaster cast of Chis’ bottom teeth
Boston Marathon ring
Expired Brazilian visa
Original copies of our last will & testament
Collection of 25 cent coins commemorating the provinces
The list goes on.
Finally, she said, it looked like the contents of the paper bag of a homeless person. We all laughed hysterically (not at the expense of homeless persons).
She had no idea how accurate she was.
Posted by dave at April 26, 2006 09:10 AM