Well it all went by very quickly.
John (LX’s dad) has given me a Canon Rebel. I haven’t even yet openned!
Duty free bagged two large bottles of Pimms and two Moet et Chandon. $33 + $55 respectively!

Wednesday 21st
Plane got a good tail wind. The tired made it back to Totnes. I didn’t sleep on the plane, but was pretty solid on the train after Reading.

Biggles in good form. Thanks Rachel.

Great hospitality from Dale & Judy, (Milbourne Lodge 127)
Present were:

Dale
Judy
Heather (daughter)
Judy’s mother
Hoola (Briefly)
John
Daria
MX
LX

Church again – but we were nice and late. But only shaving off a quarter of an hour.
Again, singing a real bind – but sermon again, not too bad.
Liz came over with my early birthday cake!

This was quite a meet:

Greg & Julie
Uncle Roman
Aunt Ksenia (John’s Mother’s sister – Julie’s Mother)

Blueberry pancakes
Siobahn’s dad show me his camera collection – would he miss his FE2?
Picked up Rick – went round this neat church. (Choose the North American jobbie.)
Army surplus story – no score
Lunch
Met up with John at Lombard @ 18:17

Long time friends of John’s, lovely place in 5 acres.
Hootch production on the garden patio. MX reckons the second distilation could pop into a Honda VTEC engine 🙂

Sanity returns in a strange location:
Belmont Starbucks

General shopping at Chicago’s Alley occurs and a trip to a great Shushi Shiroi Hana Restaurant, those present:

MX
LX
Siobahn
Ric

Comment: Excellent

Dropped of clothes at Siobahn’s parents, then we visited Kopi’s. Which we were pleasently ejected from at approximately 00:30.

Did a bit of straight driving for the second time. (Got the old Internation Driving License just incase.) But only at night, because those intersections look a bit tricky of Mr Lefty…

Arrived back 07:15

Grim, started back to find nobody had been visiting the Shrine of complete Dog’s Bollocks.

Dinner at Denny’s at 22:00 14th September – what a gloriously shit evening.

Get rid of car, walk round
2pm – trip around United Grand Lodge of Massachusetts very kindly conducted by R Carlton Hill.
We learnt stacks!

Great lunch at a noodle house in Chinatown.

It’s was a wrench not to see more of Boston – great city. Loads of history.

Now after all this travelling – was it worth it!
Certainly was, met up with LX’s net friend of 5 years – Heather and hubby Sean.
Great Thai meal
Follow by a trip to JP Licks – YUMMY icecream.

Those present:

MX
LX
John – LX’s dad
Heather
Sean

Accelerating on v quickly, as it’s actually 22:28 on Sunday 25th and it’s work tommorrow.

4th Calvary Community Church with Maria.
Too much singing, bit of hand waving. Rev Scott Eaton, sermon’s 8 outta 10.
5th Shopping with Maria – various.
6th Downtown with Liz – good fun.
7th Millenium Park and the Bean (of official the Cloud Gate)
8th Arrived at Father-in-law: John & Daria
9th Leave for the big trip 10:30 (remember the missing petrol cap John…)
Indiana-Ohio-Pensylvania
10th Arrive at Maria and Walter’s 08:00! (Maria is Daria’s niece)

Lunch at Todai’s, Lisa caught up with her best friend Siobahn and her Aunt Liz.

Also present myself and Lisa’s mother Maria.

BA299
16:15

Started at Totnes in morning, arrived at Heathrow via bus from Reading.
Take off about an hour late – I think it needed a push…