In other news, Meg and I are quasi-packing today. Right now, we're combing each other's computer files for things that we want to keep for ourselves. Meg's going through my crazy pictures and found a few gems that I feel compelled to share right now:
LynnieC took this picture from the window of our hotel in Paris. Sometimes she forgets that other people can hear her, and so she was leaning out our window, loudly complaining that she wanted to finish her roll of film, but didn't want to just waste a picture. As she (loudly) wished that something interesting would happen on the street, a man on the street below stooped down, and put a traffic cone on his head. Lyn managed to snap this picture, and then he put the cone down and walked away. This photo we call "Thank you, Mr. Pylon Man!"Best day ever.
Okay, so on our first (?) day in Berlin, Lyn, Dara and I were wandering around outside our hotel (pictured in the background -- the Hotel Alexanderplatz) and we were approaching the mall in the S-Bahn station across the street, when we saw a giant ostrich wander in to the mall. Of course we followed him, to the weirdest fashion show ever! (It was like, Fashion Through the Ages or something). When we went outside, two girls from our group were having their pictures taken with the giant ostrich, and so either Lyn or Dara snapped this one.
My sister e-mailed me this photo. The subject line was "Is that horse hooves I hear?" and all the message said was "Is that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?" I ended up including this photo in a PowerPoint presentation that I did during the class I taught on "Europe since 1945 in 45 minutes." I was introducing Mikhail Gorbachev, and quickly flipped to this photo with only the explanation, "And here he is in a more recent photo."This post is also to celebrate the fact that Blogger apparently now hosts photos, without photobucket or hello or anything.
8 comments:
Pylon Man. What a good man.
I miss Paris.
Aaah pylon man. There is nothing like pylon man in...PAris!!!
You should put up the picture of Le Speedy Business Lunch.
HA.
I thought the "is that horse hooves I hear" comment was an allusion to the myth that a human incarnation of Satan has cloven hooves for feet.
But both interpretations seem to work just fine.
I thought the best day ever was the day you bought Batgirl Barbie and your pink trench coat? I was telling that story tonight because I was singing the Batgirl theme song.
Actually "is that hosre hooves I hear" comment was an allusion to the Horsemen of the Apocalypse. I figured that if Leo and Gorbie were shaking hands "the sign is nigh". Come on people, keep up with me.
"See? You gotta be quick! You gotta be quick with me! I'm from Erie, P.A.!"
Man, that also was the best day ever. Especially when I found the Batgirl barbie.
Ah, Le Speedy Business Lunch. There is nothing like le Speedy Business Lunch...in ParIS. But the city, she has broken my heart.
LynnieC, do I have a picture of the sign for le Speedy Business Lunch?
I do if you don't. You were the one that took it, I think. Or maybe it was Dara. Either way, I've got it.
That was definitely Dara. Maybe I do have it, in my Shoebox of Extra Pictures.
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