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Disneyland_Mama said:I spent the morning catching up on you TR.
Your pictures amaze me, as always.
Love the photo of family dinner! What a wonderful family! Your DN is a cutie pie!
Looking foward to more!
Thank you, friend.
You ask and I deliver.
Here's the final installment, exactly four weeks since we arrived home! No bad, eh?
DAY NINE
SATURDAY
EVEN THE NIGHT HAS EARS AFRICAN PROVERB
Ah, well, even the most wonderful of vacations must come to a close and this was our very last day.
Fortunately, we are blessed with daily lives that we truly love, but still its so hard to leave the magic behind so, I imagine, like most of you when that last day finally comes up, we try to make it last as long as possible
Ours began with an early morning wake up call to once again gather with the family this time at DS, DN, DBILs home. Have I mentioned that they are architects (both of them) and interior designers (DS, by trade)???
Well, lets just put it this way, I am NOT the jealous type and Im still not, because upon seeing their new home for the very time I was transported beyond jealous. I mean, I was prepared for jealous. But when I actually saw the home I knew I was being really silly, because, friends, you could give me all the money, land, time, and resources in the world and I could never plan, build, or decorate a house that got anywhere near the beauty of what they have constructed.
As one example that I couldnt capture photographically, but Ill try to convey: they live on a lake (and here, again, I was prepared for, you know, a good sized lake, but this thing is seven miles wide; it must have TIDES!) and the entire back of their home, which faces the lake, is glass. So, if you stand at the kitchen aisle, overlooking the family room, facing the back of the house and the lake upon which it sits, you feel as if you are on a houseboat, set to sea!
See what I mean? You cant be jealous about stuff like that. The only thing you can do in the face of stuff like that is smile! Yes, indeed. Smile, say yes to a mimosa, and graciously request that they keep the champagne and hold the mimo.
And did I mention that DS can cook, too? More mimo-less mimosa, please!
Ah, finally, the family festivities for this trip came to a close mostly because we had some serious time-lengthening to do and DS, DBIL, and niece had some serious Gator-Gaming to do (did I mention season tickets?)
So, with one afternoon and one evening left, we plotted the following: we finally enjoyed one entire afternoon at the Uzima pool (where we met fellow Dissers the Cross Family!) and one last, and our fourth, dinner at Jiko.
My "bleu cheese" tones WINE OF THE WEEK:
MY FAVORITE FLATBREAD:
SPECTACULAR SHRIMP DISH FOR DP (I enjoyed it earlier in the week at meal one, with Rick and Joe):
OH, YOU GOTTA LOVE THE SMASHED POTATOES (served with some chicken!):
OK, THIS IS THE CHILD'S SMORES DESSERT. SHOOT ME!
WONDERFUL CHEESE PLATTER:
Friends, what can I say? It was the 20th Anniversary Trip of a lifetime and we are very blessed: by wonderful families, by fulfilling careers, by terrific neighbors, by a terrific place to vacation year after year, so that our memories and experiences become richly layered and finely hued, and by all of you who come here, read these TRs, vicariously share our good times, allow us to relive the joy, and become good friends in the process.
Thanks guys!
