Well, Cia has gone. And that is a sad thing. It has been a very interesting time for the two of us. Now, to explain why.....
She got here Friday around three in the afternoon. I was already there, waiting and watching. When I saw her waiting to get her bag from the bus, I tried to get pictures of her before she knew about them; they did not turn out. I have to say that she gives really good hugs. We hugged for a very long time before finally walking around downtown Louisville. She kept telling me that it was "surreal" finally being here.
She seemed to really like the city, what she saw of it in the short time we were there before heading to my place, where she got to meet my roomies. As we were talking and what-not, my mother showed up to drop off my mephew for the night, the roommates not having informed me that he was staying the night before they went out.....
Saturday, we woke up early and made sure Cia had coffee before I went to pick up my son and soem breakfast from McDonald's. She seemed to like the McGriddles sandwich. Anyway, news of the Queen being in town for the Derby kinda ruined the idea for her, so we took my son and nephew to see Spider-Man 3. I hafta say she was really good with the boys; she had them laughing and giggling and we were all acting silly. Well, we were out past the time my mom was going to pick up my nephew, so I called her and she mets us. We all went to Mark's Feed Store, a restaurant known for it's barbecue dishes, then went to a park for awhile. More fun was had with the kids and my mother. Afterwards, we came back to my place and chatted some more.
Sunday went by fairly quickly. We took my nephew on a tour of Cavehill Cemetary after getting soem food at a rather large and nice-looking Kentucky fried Chicken restaurant (come on... she couldn't come here without eating at one). We were going to hang out with some friends of mine, but they weren't getting together until late and I had to be at work at 5 am on Monday. Instead, she bought dinner for us and the roommates and we rented a movie called Missing in America, with Danny glover, Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman. Not a bad movie for one that neither of us had heard of before. And more chatting until all hours.
After three hours of sleep, I woke up and went to work. After work, we went out to Knob Creek Gun range with my mother. After a short course in safety, how to aim and how to fire, we took soem time to do some shooting. The guy in one of the lanes next to us, in a Fire-and-Rescue shirt, had a pistol with a silencer. That would be the first time even I had seen and heard a silencer in use. There were several people there sighting rifles, shooting pistols, even a guy with a fully automatic AK assault rifle. Cia was amazed when a guy and hois wife brought their four kids, ages 10 to 13, for some shooting time. A real family affair. Turned out I had served with him in the Persian Gulf. So, I took time to chat with him about the reunion coming up in 2011.
Tuesday... I kinda don't remember it much. Again, three hours of sleep, into work early. I do remember staying up fairly late again chatting and lounging around in my room.
I was off Wednesday, and we spent the day touring downtown Louisville. After a late lunch, we went into the artsy/alternative part of town known as The Highlands, the part of town that ends at Cavehill Cemetary. Kind of an appropriate area for a woman from Scotland to visit.LOL Unfortunately, a combination of a big meal and the heat made me start to feel ill. We came back to the apartment and Cia decided to try to nurse me back to health. No, you pervs. She did not put on that cute nurse's outfit.... Dammit!
Thursday, I had to be at work at 5 am again, and I was not home when she left out for the airport. Which both sucks and was a good thing. I wanted to see her off, but I think it would have been very emotional for the both of us. But, we did a little texting on our cell-phones, so we got our "good-byes" in, and she told me she was thrilled because Tony Blair is stepping down as British Prime Minister.
On a side note, yesterday, we saw soem protesters but didn't really feel like finding out what they were protesting. Turns out that a restaurant owner, on Friday night after the Oaks race, refused service to O J Simpson. Apparently, O J is intending to sue for "racial discrimination". The restaurant owner claims that he believes thet O J has been tormenting the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman with his antics-such as his attempt at publishing his book, If I Did It, Here's How It Happened. Supposedly, five minutes after O J left, Michael Jordon came in and he and his party of thirty were seated and served immediately. So, Wednesday, the Reverend Louis Coleman decided to stage a protest outside of the restaurant and we happened to walk close enough to see it.
Most of the pictures of us were taken with her camera or her phone and she didn't get the time to download them before leaving this morning. I will be downloading more pictures that I have taken of some of the sites she got to see.....
Okay, now I am sure that everyone is wanting to know the "DIRT" of what happened. All the juicy stuff that I have left out. Well, I will not go into full details, but, let's just say that our chats involved a lot of heart-felt conversation about feelings and what we want out of our respective lives.
