A Note From Erie (Gabrielle)
Hello everybody! I am doing well here in good ole Drearie Erie. As of Thursday it had snowed here every single day for the past 29 days. I walked over to my father’s house and was just so very amused by the three foot high drifts on either side of the sidewalk. It made me want to laugh at everyone in Peoria who thinks that six to ten inches constitutes a city-wide emergency. So, um, feel laughed at you people.
In other news I have a brand new baby neice. Her name is Evageline Felicity Gardner and she is simply the cutest thing. She has a lot of dark hair and the Ben-Ezra nose which can make any baby cute. Lily and Malachi are thrilled to have a little sister and they are so cute when they try to say Evangeline. Their parents have told them that they could just call her Evy, but they are just too happy with her full name to shorten it. Surprisingly, this little girl has really superb timing. She gave me Tuesday to recover from travelling and then made her appearance early Wednesday morning.
I had quite the adevnture getting here. After many delays I made it to Pittsburgh only to find out that I had missed my plane. And after I waited for over two hours they told us that plane was cancelled due to mechanical problems. So there I am, stranded in the Pittsburgh airport without even a cell phone to my name. My father was trying to figure out ways to get me to Erie or to my aunt’s in Pittsburgh without him having to make a four hour round trip at 8:40 at night. I was just wandering out of baggage claim trying not to notice the entire airport closing down around me when a woman I had noticed in the gate came up to me and asked if I had a place to go. I told her I thought my father was coming to get me. She conferred with her significant other and they offered to let me ride with them in their rental car. They could drop me off at the Erie airport. I borrowed their cell phone to call Dad and he was far less nervous about it than I expected. So I had a really lovly two hour ride with two complete strangers. They were very nice people and she owns a beach glass jewelry store here that I had wanted to visit so probably sometime next week I’m going to go and say hey.
After the adeventure of getting here actually being here has looked rather tame, but I am enjoying myself. This week has been quiet though next week is starting to fill up. It’s weird- everybody seems to want to see me while I’m here. That goes a long way to making me feel loved.
Farewell for now, everyone. Perhaps I will write before I leave or perhaps I won’t. I’m finding the dial-up internet rather daunting. But if I don’t write do know that I am thinking of you. Well, I’m thinking of some of you. You over there, not so much. Well, I’m not thinking of you either. But I am thinking of the rest of you. Know that.