IS THIS FUN OR IS THIS FUN !
Yesterday afternoon Patti and I went to Detroit Metro to meet our friends from France .. Clement and Patricia and their 16-year-old son Merlin.
On the famous zero to ten scale (zero being zero and ten being the very best) .. we broke the scale with a rating of twenty!
PERFECTION.
THANKS to 'News and Weather on the Eights' (each and every eight minutes news and weather on our local radio station WWJ at 950 on the AM dial) Patti and I arrived at Detroit Metro in excellent time ..
THANKS to 'News and Weather on the Eights' Patti and I
avoided two potentially frustrating traffic tie-ups*. We motored west out 12-mile-road to Middlebelt Road and south to I-94 and the airport totally avoiding stop-and-go traffic grid-lock at the junctions of I-94 with (1) the Southfield Freeway and (2) Telegraph Road.
Patti doubled-parked and waited for me while I went into the baggage pick-up area at the North Terminal. Their flight was right-on-time and we met face-to-face with no drama at baggage carousel number five.
I had Clement talk-in-French to Patti in our truck and surprised by an incoming call in French .. Patti 'nearly' but did not 'hang up' the phone thinking it was a wrong number call. With a similar telephone call .. Clement and I did NOT fool 'Zilla .. who has spent decades of his life living overseas. In response 'Zilla came right back with a "Hi Clement!"
Our trip back to Royal Oak was met with a monsoon rain and I smiled and told our French visitors .. this is 'rain'. Crocodile Dundee agreed! "This is RAIN mate!"
Giving our visitors some 'space' .. Patti and I left them here at our home to 'settle' and we two ate a nice dinner out and went to a meeting. They have a six-hour jet lag so they were early to bed and early to rise this morning.
Today we go 'car shopping' and 'cell phone sim card exploring' and 'you name it' ..
MUCH JOY .. Patti and Cap
* Clement is from France. Clement did NOT know what a traffic 'tie-up' is. For those of you in India and elsewhere when you are 'tied-up' you cannot move. So IF you are 'tied-up' in traffic you cannot move.
IF ALL OF THIS HAS CONFUSED YOU .. please just scroll-down to yesterday's post for more details!
Yesterday afternoon Patti and I went to Detroit Metro to meet our friends from France .. Clement and Patricia and their 16-year-old son Merlin.
On the famous zero to ten scale (zero being zero and ten being the very best) .. we broke the scale with a rating of twenty!
PERFECTION.
THANKS to 'News and Weather on the Eights' (each and every eight minutes news and weather on our local radio station WWJ at 950 on the AM dial) Patti and I arrived at Detroit Metro in excellent time ..
THANKS to 'News and Weather on the Eights' Patti and I
avoided two potentially frustrating traffic tie-ups*. We motored west out 12-mile-road to Middlebelt Road and south to I-94 and the airport totally avoiding stop-and-go traffic grid-lock at the junctions of I-94 with (1) the Southfield Freeway and (2) Telegraph Road.
Patti doubled-parked and waited for me while I went into the baggage pick-up area at the North Terminal. Their flight was right-on-time and we met face-to-face with no drama at baggage carousel number five.
I had Clement talk-in-French to Patti in our truck and surprised by an incoming call in French .. Patti 'nearly' but did not 'hang up' the phone thinking it was a wrong number call. With a similar telephone call .. Clement and I did NOT fool 'Zilla .. who has spent decades of his life living overseas. In response 'Zilla came right back with a "Hi Clement!"
Our trip back to Royal Oak was met with a monsoon rain and I smiled and told our French visitors .. this is 'rain'. Crocodile Dundee agreed! "This is RAIN mate!"
Giving our visitors some 'space' .. Patti and I left them here at our home to 'settle' and we two ate a nice dinner out and went to a meeting. They have a six-hour jet lag so they were early to bed and early to rise this morning.
Today we go 'car shopping' and 'cell phone sim card exploring' and 'you name it' ..
MUCH JOY .. Patti and Cap
* Clement is from France. Clement did NOT know what a traffic 'tie-up' is. For those of you in India and elsewhere when you are 'tied-up' you cannot move. So IF you are 'tied-up' in traffic you cannot move.
IF ALL OF THIS HAS CONFUSED YOU .. please just scroll-down to yesterday's post for more details!
Welcome to Clement, Patricia and Merlin from a reader in Florida. Hope you have an exciting adventure!
ReplyDeleteGood to hear from you .. would you like a visit from them .. Smiles .. Cap
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