purchases
Posted: March 15, 2006 Filed under: Uncategorized 5 Comments »I had a big blog post on teenagers in mind but got sidetracked by a visit to my fabulous primary care doctor (she left her old practice last year so I had been waiting for her to set up a new one and yay! she has). And then I decided since I was already 4 WHOLE SUBWAY STOPS away from my home, I would go whole hog and meet Wes in the city for dinner and some important shopping he had been assigned.
Can I just say that there is nothing so good in the world as listening to your iPod on an uncrowded subway car whilst hurtling toward Manhattan Island?
Anyway, it took forever to get Wes out of his hellish ginormous office building (he supervises a staff of 10 and his title really should be Question Answerer because they never. leave. him. alone.) so we had a brief shopping trip to Br**kstone and Sh*rper Im*ge looking for travel items. We ended up with:
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Except imagine that phrase there saying, "Merhaba!" Or… something sort of like that. I can’t learn Turkish for crap beyond "hello" and the numbers one-four (which we learned only because they all sound like funny English words – beer, icky, ooch, dirt. See? Funny. My friend who lives there told me of an even better one – the number "81" is "seksun bir." Get it? funny.
We leave for Istanbul in 5 DAYS!
I promise to blog about the kid tomorrow. There’s funny stuff afoot there, too. Though not as funny as the Turkish language.
I’m sooooo jealous. I can’t believe you get to go to Turkey AND have a reunion with S. Promise to take lots of pictures and gather lots of stories to tell me when you return.
Turkish sounds fun.
Hey, wouldja send me the name/info for your cool doctor? Thanks.
What is that thing with the world map on it? And how many Sqush (or however you spell it?) pillows did you get? All 11 in the photo?
Those are power converters, Jen. We are a bit flummoxed about electricity and our iPods/camera batteries. It seems they adapt but we still had to adapt the plug. I don’t know if it will all work out but I sure hope so – a 15 year old without his iPod functioning is a very unhappy teen indeed.
We only got 3 of those pillows after MUCH debate about which to get. We’re trying the two different kinds to see what we like. We’ve never been the travel pillow types but this is the longest flight 2/3 of us have ever taken (nonstop).
At the moment, I am a pillow expert. And I do highly recommend the Sqush in its many guises. But in particular I would suggest that you add to your arsenal one of the neck pillows shaped like a C. Preferably the Sqush variety but even the ordinary batting-stuffed one will do. And do snag the airplane pillows as well – the more pillow bits you have to bolster yourself in different ways, the happier you will be.
Good luck!