The ships came in today, so there were more little carts in Teatro Square than on a regular day. I am looking for a particular vendor, so we went down to get some lunch and see if she was there. She wasn't, but I did get a few things including some carved wooden spoons, and Del got a small carving of a troll or some such. The young man who had carved the spoons and the little troll guy was in his early 30's and very eager to talk to us. A key chain that was in the shape of a hand forming the letter /t/ in the deaf alphabet caught my eye and without stopping to engage mind before putting mouth in gear, I asked him why he had carved the letter/t/ from the deaf alphabet. He looked at me a little funny and said several times that it wasn't bad, it wasn't bad, not like saying __you (using the universal finger sign for that to illustrate his explanation) not bad, just a Lithuanian way of expressing when someone asks for money and you don't give it or something like that. He really looked quite distressed over the whole conversation, but was trying to answer the question I had asked. I mean, how many times do you think he has had that discussion with grandmotherly American women. I did manage to get away from the stall before the losing it all together, and I confess that the first thing that came to mind was that this would certainly perk up BLOG. I mean you can't make this stuff up, or I can't, anyhow.
We had lunch at a pretty little restaurant overlooking the square. I had a chicken and mushroom dish and Del had a pork dish. They were both good, but not so much to our taste as other restaurants we have tried. I'm glad we didn't take Mark and Sandy there.
By the way, they reported that they were the only people on their all day tour of Iceland and that one of the stops was the codfish museum. I wonder if the aroma of cod wafted down the halls of the museum. I have been quite disconcerted by the aroma of fish sandwiches in the food area of the Atlanta aquarium. It just seems wrong, somehow. Sandy brought up an interesting thought the other day. Why do we say tuna fish and cod fish but not most other kind?
One of the new freebies from Amazon for EJH, Jr. is a travel story called "YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR THIS TIME, SIR. by Danny Bent. He rode his bike named Shirley from his home in London 15000 K to India for a charity called Action Aid. This was in 2009. I haven't gotten terribly far, but I'm really enjoying it. Love those freebies. Some are good stuff, and some are just junk, but they are free, so who cares.
We joined Audrone, Vladas and Joris for bubble night in the square. It was full of young famiies, lots of strollers and lots of pregnant ladies. Del was sitting on a ledge blowing bubbles for Joris who was standing on the ledge when a little girl came up and started talking to Del a mile a minute. It was clear she wanted him to blow bubbles for her too. Her parents were right there and seemed okay with it, Daddy was taking pictures of them with a big camera, so he blew them for her to pop, too. At one point a toddler friend of Joris' family started wandering off and I followed, because it seemed the thing to do. Joris came after me talking a mile a minute. A lady about my age called out to me "Excuse me, woman, where you home?" I stopped to chat. She wanted to know if they were my grandchildren. I think it was confusing to her to see a child talking Lithuanian to a woman who was speaking English to him with a Lithuanian word thrown in now and then. I told her they were not, but my granddaughter will be coming soon. She kept saying she was sorry to bother me, but to have a good time and come back to Lithuania.
I am not sure what the internet situation will be in Rhodes, but we are taking a computer. A taxi will pick us up at 2 am to go to meet our charter bus to the airport about 2 and 1/2 hours from here. We are all packed and just about finished with the picking up around here. We are washing all our sheets and towels tonight and hanging them all over the place. It will be nice to have clean sheets without having to look at them hanging all over the place for 2-3 days.
This will be our first trip with Ryan Air, the ultimate in no frills flying from what I understand. It's also our first charter flight. We shall see what we shall see.
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