California Dreaming
I am on a plane back to freezing cold home sweet home, with an empty middle seat next to me. This has never happened. On the flight to California, an unfortunate young man was stuck sitting between me and another plus size woman (I refer to him as “unfortunate” because of his being stuck between us, I am sure he was a lovely human.) I felt a little bad for him, but he seemed to survive. Right now, I feel like the king of England with all this leg room. Again, the class system is alive and well on airplanes.
As for the rest of my trip, thanks for asking, it was lovely. My sister and brother-in-law were really so kind and drove me to the airport. This meant a 5:30 a.m. wake up. You know when you have to wake up really early and you end up waking up every 20 minutes or so because you are afraid you are going to oversleep? (Even though I haven’t slept through the night without waking up in 29 years.) Well, during one of those 20-minute stints, I had the craziest dream, but my dad was in it, so it was well worth the trying-to-figure-out-why I had it dream. But I digress.
When we left to get into the car, the fog was so thick outside, if I had been the one driving, I would have said, “Nope, I am not driving in these conditions. You can take an Uber.” But my brother-in-law is a doll and no comment was made and off we went.
Back to Day 3. My sister got us tickets to see the Jennifer Hudson show. For those who don’t know who she is, according to her Wikipedia page she is an EGOT winner — she has an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. She has a beautiful voice, but after seeing her show, I am not sure how it has been on the air for three seasons.
As audience members, you are told to have a lot of energy, lots of clapping, cheering, hooting, hollering, and dancing. I was so tired by the end of the show, I was ready to take a nap. Jennifer Hudson looked like she did not care how hard the audience was working. Honestly, she looked a little bored, and quite frankly that annoyed me, because my sister and I were wearing matching pink shirts because they said they don’t like when people wear black.
I gave up wearing my black turtleneck to wear a pink shirt from H&M. PINK!! And Jennifer didn’t care. Can you believe it? But we had a really good time and they played really good music and we got a free book about Black history because even though the show was taped in January, it isn’t being aired until February 2 and February is Black History Month. So there you go.
For dinner that night we went to a place called Jeff’s, which was recommended by Son #3. I am not sure how he heard of it because I don’t think he has ever been to California, but that is another story.
Jeff’s was delicious. Everyone was happy with their food, even my vegan niece, because they had an Impossible Burger on the menu. They were happy, I was happy, am yisroel chai.
And when we got home, we played Rummikub again and I won twice. Because it is all about me.
I could tell that I really enjoyed this vacation because I didn’t make one list with all the things I needed to do and needed to buy when I got home. But I guess I will be doing that on the plane because, God willing, I will be back to reality again soon. Husband #1 has already informed that the heat in the house has been running nonstop and it still isn’t warming up, so I have that to look forward to!
And then there is Camp Babka winter session. One of my campers requested that I buy her stickers in California, so of course I did. I also bought identical stickers for my other camper because, well, if they don’t both have the same thing, it doesn’t end well for Babka.
And there you go.
Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck would like to publicly thank her sister and family for their incredible hospitality and their dog Harley for not eating her chocolate or gum, even though he really tried.
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