Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Suddenly the entry hall was full of people
The pizza man came from Hell('s Pizza, actually) and in response to the cry "pizza is here" there suddenly appeared, besides me, two other adults, three teen-age boys, an 8 year old girl, and two 20 year females and a dog. We currently are housing all but one of these (a school chum of Joseph's), and are bursting at the seams, mom and dad in their bed, Emily in hers, Joseph downstairs with a friend who came with his family to visit, from Kansas, and also with one of his friend's sister, and the other mom and sister in what is usually Joseph's bed. The shower walls are papered with towels, the hot water heater and heat pumps working overtime (below 32 this am), but we are having a grand visit, and the "foreigners" from Kansas seem to have adapted well to New Zealand time. We are off for a few days at the beach later this week. They brought food gifts (e.g. doritos and marshmallows) that we cannot get here and some clothes Carrie had ordered and had sent to them, some books, too, and a wealth of smiles and good nature - we are happy to have there here and will be sad when they go in about a week and a half. (They get a couple or three nights in Tahiti on the way home!). This morning the two moms are going grocery shopping. Yesterday, Carrie suffering the effects of a bad head cold, Manford took the foreign mom out to see some sights and the best was a quick tour (it was cold and the sun was going down) of some really wonderful gardens at Hamilton Gardens - Indian and Chinese and Japanese and a few others - but the strange one was called contemporary American - with Adirondac chairs by a pool with a sculpture in it and a montage of Marilyn Monroe on one wall and a small deck with chairs and a mostly glass enclosure with tables and plants we could not readily identify. All in all, or as they say here"at the end of the day" it was an interesting time. Well I need to go to eat some toast. More later, from Carrie, I hope, telling about the games the Kansans brought. Manford
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