Showing posts with label friendships. Show all posts
Showing posts with label friendships. Show all posts

Monday, August 24, 2009

Lady of Spain Comes to Visit

What a delightful surprise! Our Lady of Spain hits this area with a day’s announcement, and is here for only three days. We were lucky to get together for lunch.



Back in the 1990s, Assumpta came for a one-year program to teach mathematics at the same school where hubby was teaching. He and other members of the math department provided Assumpta assistance, and she has many times expressed her gratitude. She is a lovely lady.

Outside the restaurant we paused for a photo before saying, “Hasta la vista.”


The memories part for me goes back to January 1998 and a marvelous trip that my daughter and I took to parts of Europe. One of our favorite cities was Barcelona. That is the place we still want to keep going back to. Although we were very cold, we enjoyed the sights, particularly with Assumpta as our personal guide.







That is me and Assumpta on the roof level of the Gaudi Museum, and on the right, are daughter and Assumpta in the same place.














Assumpta showed us her apartment in Olot.


We were warmly greeted by her own family.

But daughter and I could not leave Barcelona without visiting the monumental church of the Holy Family, begun by Antoni Gaudi so many years ago. Hubby and I had visited Barcelona some 30 something years earlier. At that time the church was a mere shell and the laborers were skilled but their tools were "low tech" in comparison to what we observed in 1998. I would like to return to see the progress during this century.





This is one of the many, many pictures we took of the spires. Believe it or not, I actually climbed one of those spires, but did not attempt to go to the highest point allowed for tourist--but daughter did. The view from up there is breathtaking, literally.











This last picture is one that I took because I saw the box with numbers. I was thinking of hubby and daughter and how they are mathematicians. At the time I was in too much of a hurry to figure out what the numbers meant, but have since figured them out. Can you?

Monday, August 18, 2008

Sad News Today

Hubby has informed me that it was 1975 when we moved to our present house. Our daughter made the change from Loara Elementary School to Peter Marshall Elementary School and she found children her age living on our street. 

The cute little girl across the street was younger than our daughter, but they soon became friends—forever. Like all young friendships theirs did not lack for periods when they were not talking to each other, but they always seemed to make-up. 

 
My daughter’s friend had a couple of older brothers and both parents. Through the years all have gone in different directions—all over the world, literally. But my daughter’s friend has always managed to keep up with everyone, and has stayed in touch with my daughter. Today, I received the sad news that my daughter’s friend has lost her mother.

 
I am sorry for her passing, of course, but my heart aches for my daughter’s friend. I have experienced the loss of a mother and know the pain. My deepest condolences to Mara and her brothers.