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Yesterday was good. I hung out with my grandparents for the afternoon. They are up visiting and I haven't seen them since before I went to Italy. They always make me feel better. I think my grandmother is my biggest ally.
Last night I was invited to the house of my old music teachers. They are married to each other. I've known them my whole life. Mrs. Zacko and my mom used to work together. They are amazing adventurous people that had a huge influence in my life. They have sailed across the atlantic many times in a 27 foot sailboat that they BUILT. They retired a year or two after I graduated high school and decided to spend a year in the Carribean and then cross the ocean again. They have been living in Seville, Spain on their boat in a marina and living the good ex-pat life. They are back now, temporarily because they bought a house in Arizona near her mother and are selling their house around here. They are having a really hard time with it, and I have to say that it's making me pretty sad that they're not going to be in the area every few years or so. I haven't seen them since my freshman or sophomore year in college.
They decided to have a dinner party for some of their former students. It was mostly my brother's friends. Even after having not seen them for so many years, it was just as if we picked up where we had left off. It was so good seeing them. Because my parents have been friends with them for so many years, I can't remember not knowing them. She took every possible opportunity from 2nd grade violin lessons through graduation from high school that she came to visit me in the hospital when I was born and that she remembers me "when you were this big" (holding out her hands.) They were the reason that I had big plans in high school to pursue professional classical music. They knew that music school would be a disaster for me and wanted to protect me from the horrible personalities I would encounter in that kind of a situation. They were always supportive and encouraging, and amazingly good teachers and musicians. I've really missed seeing them.
We ate pizza and drank wine and chatted for a while. It was so good seeing them. Their plans from now are to close on both their new house and their old house. Then they are driving out to Arizona and getting settled. They will then fly to Trinidad where their boat is getting some work and head for the Panama Canal. The plan is to get to Tahiti at some point. They are going to venture the pacific. I hope when I am older I can have the guts to do something so bold.
Last night I was invited to the house of my old music teachers. They are married to each other. I've known them my whole life. Mrs. Zacko and my mom used to work together. They are amazing adventurous people that had a huge influence in my life. They have sailed across the atlantic many times in a 27 foot sailboat that they BUILT. They retired a year or two after I graduated high school and decided to spend a year in the Carribean and then cross the ocean again. They have been living in Seville, Spain on their boat in a marina and living the good ex-pat life. They are back now, temporarily because they bought a house in Arizona near her mother and are selling their house around here. They are having a really hard time with it, and I have to say that it's making me pretty sad that they're not going to be in the area every few years or so. I haven't seen them since my freshman or sophomore year in college.
They decided to have a dinner party for some of their former students. It was mostly my brother's friends. Even after having not seen them for so many years, it was just as if we picked up where we had left off. It was so good seeing them. Because my parents have been friends with them for so many years, I can't remember not knowing them. She took every possible opportunity from 2nd grade violin lessons through graduation from high school that she came to visit me in the hospital when I was born and that she remembers me "when you were this big" (holding out her hands.) They were the reason that I had big plans in high school to pursue professional classical music. They knew that music school would be a disaster for me and wanted to protect me from the horrible personalities I would encounter in that kind of a situation. They were always supportive and encouraging, and amazingly good teachers and musicians. I've really missed seeing them.
We ate pizza and drank wine and chatted for a while. It was so good seeing them. Their plans from now are to close on both their new house and their old house. Then they are driving out to Arizona and getting settled. They will then fly to Trinidad where their boat is getting some work and head for the Panama Canal. The plan is to get to Tahiti at some point. They are going to venture the pacific. I hope when I am older I can have the guts to do something so bold.