After 3 and 1/2 wonderful days with friends Mark and Sandy, we had to let them go this morning. Despite my fears that my poor Lithuanian/English mix would not result in a taxi at 4:45 this morning, it arrived and off they went. Del rode to the airport with them, and I waved from the green door. They have updated us on their progress via email and are now in Iceland preparing for a 10 hour tour tomorrow.
We have had a quiet day. We both did laundry, and I admit to two naps - one of them longer than the usual definition for nap allows. I also walked over to the square to the amber carts to see if they had anything new and visited a couple of shops. There were no ships in, so the square was quiet. Maybe tomorrow.
We had been told that real amber floats in a 10% salt water solution, so I stirred up a batch to test one of the pieces I bought from a vendor while Sandy was here. It floated, so it must be real. I'm relieved the vendor who crossed herself and swore it was real is in no danger of being struck down by lightening or something. I knew from the price that this could not be top of the line amber, but that's okay with me. I just don't want plastic.
Dave emailed that they planned to go to Villa Rica today to get our car so they can leave it at the airport for us when they fly out to see us. That makes the time we have left here seem really short. I can hardly wait for them to get here. I hope the short time they have here will be enough for them to get some idea of why we have been so happy here.
Travel tip: We love our hand held scale for weighing luggage. It certainly beats standing on the bathroom scale with a heavy suitcase cradled in your arms. Such a gentle way of expressing an action almost guaranteed to leave you with a pain somewhere, don't you think? And our hotel rooms never have scales, so we can't even do that coming home. We paid around twenty five bucks for it several years ago, if I remember correctly, and it lives in our big suitcase. We are always underweight, or our luggage is, leaving home, but the scale has helped us rob Peter to pay Paul when packing to come home. We didn't have too much weight in total, but it was not distributed properly between the suitcases.
It will be interesting to see what our baggage situation is going home. We haven't bought all that much, although I do confess to an issue with shawls. I probably will arrive in Villa Rica wearing a long down coat, because I don;t have a suuitcase to devote to it, but we will leave some stuff here at the Humana, I'm sure.
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