Simple thoughts

Carefully checking the Netherland map to fix the details of our trip, I saw that on our way back, we'll pass very near Josan's hometown. She's an on-line friend with whom I'm in touch from several years now. I got to know her through an old fan site, now she's the master of this one. I really hope everything will fit in so to get to know each other personally!

And this tought brought me very far.........made me thinking about all the people I "met" online who has become my regulars.........how I came to know so different ways of living, in so many countries, lots of different realities.
So many names I check on often (someone on a daily basis).............Milica in Serbia, Ionuca in Romania,  Josan in Holland, Julia and Shadia in Germany, Shelley in Italy, Kelli in Arizona, Andy in Florida. And so many others....... Ree, Jenny, Finny, Karl, Bobbie, Alexis..............what a wonderful world there's out there!



Anyway, this weekend I will spend time with my flesh-and-blood friends, starting from tonight. So, I won't have the chance to be online till next week, the last working one! And I have to think about arranging baggages and lists of what to bring with us. Have a great time, all of you..........

Yesterday morning mom asked me to drive her and dad's brother to visit an old aunt (dad's sister) who's staying at the same nursing home dad spent some months in, last year.
Aunt Dina conditions are worsened a little (she has the same desease dad had) and so did all the others patients I saw as well. It was very painful to be back there, see again all those people who for a while shared our lives, and their families as well. Lots of them are worsened so very much, not talking or walking anymore. Some are not able anymore to feed themselves without help.
So I guess Someone above thought it for the better, I guess dad is fine now, I know I couldn't see him like this. Now I can imagine him in a better place, looking after us all.

You know, our friend Anna sings in a choir. They are very very good, but usually they sing when partecipating at events far from home. This time it was for a village feast in the mountains one hour from the city, so saturday night we drove to Albareto to see the performance.
The opening was led by a little choir, little for the ages of the singers........(sorry, the pics are non good)



Then it was time for the local choir, good but lots of work to do ahed of them.
And then it was Anna's group performance. They are so very good, it was hot inside the palace but they made me shiver down my back, so emotional were their voices...............



After the performance, we made some arrangements for sunday morning. We met at 8.30am to drive our bikes to the seaside, at Luni Mare, where another couple of friends has a home. We stayed in their backyard till past noon (the weather was not so good for the beach) talking and drinking iced tea, and then we headed to Marina di Carrara at the restaurant they've booked.











the one trying to hide himself is our friends' son..................but I got him!





...............so very good

The sky was getting darker and darker, so we decided to leave earlier than planned. We supposed the highway was very crowded (and we were right) so we took the national road. At the Passo della Cisa it seemed more like the 20th of november, not the 20th of july!