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Sunday, November 07, 2004

What a day :-)...

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I swear, yesterday it felt like we should've had a portable laugh track with us. It was a comedy of errors worthy of a sitcom :-).

Getting them at the airport worked out just fine--I was mostly relieved they got here okay :-). The last time I came to Memphis I was interviewed by the immigrations officer in Detroit for so long I'd missed my connecting flight to Memphis and had to get a different one.

The comedy of errors started happening when we were taking them to their apartment. They were sharing an apartment with someone at work you see, and I had arranged for that someone to leave the key at the apartment's front office. Well we had gotten there and there wasn't a key. I'd called Teresa to ask if Charity did leave the key at the front desk, and Teresa said Charity wasn't with her. Charity went to leave the key at the front desk at WORK. Good thing the office was near the apartment.

So we start driving over to the office (and mind you, the trainees at this time were just so tired, I would be too, I remember how long that flight was). Teresa calls me again and says that Charity is now with her, and she DID leave the keys at the front desk. So we did a U-turn and went all the way back.

We were finally able to get the key and get their luggage into the apartment. Then we took them shopping and when that was done, they were able to just crash and rest while Steve and I went home :-).

That was the major plot :-). During the plot, little things were happening that, in the end, added to the whole sitcom experience :-)...

1. We didn't have a swipe card to get into the complex so we would wait for a resident to come in then we'd RUSH in after them. If you've ever seen that Mr. Bean episode where he does the same thing to get into a pay parking garage (I love that episode ), that's what we did. We discovered later that there was a code to the leasing office right at the gate.

2. When we first didn't have the key, we tried going to the apartment to see if maybe Charity was home--and we ended up knocking on the wrong apartment door :-).

3. When we finally got the key, I was so happy I started to run back to the car in slow motion humming the theme from Chariots of Fire. This prompted one of the girls to ask Steve, "Is she ALWAYS this cheerful?" :-)

Oh, and guess who we saw at the airport while we were waiting for the girls.

ISAAC HAYES! THE Isaac Hayes! Chef from South Park! I was almost hoping he'd say in his Chef voice, "Hello, children!"

I guess that would make him the celebrity guest star of our sitcom :-)...


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