California Dreaming

As anyone who has read my blog recently will know Sam and Fred have been in England. Sam had to come and get her visa renewed and this was being combined with a little holiday to see family and friends. What I haven't said in any detail is the catastrophe she had in trying to get this sorted. I won't bore you with the finer points and in any case Sam doesn't want me to but I will say it took a lot of telephone calls, emails and fedex, plus anxiety before the difficulty was resolved. It meant Sam could not go to Paris with Fred, and I was looking forward to joining them for a couple of days, but there's always next time.

However, the bonus was Sam got to see her dear friend Sheena who is very ill and is now in a hospice and they did get to go to Cornwall for a couple of days. Fred was due to fly home last Saturday and Sam thought she would be here for another week but in the end her new visa, together with her passport, arrived on Friday morning. It was such a shock pleasant surprise as she was expecting 24 hours notice. You can imaging it was then all systems go packing (BTW Beccy I let them have that spare bag of yours-hope that's OK). EmBee and I drove them to Heathrow Airport on the Saturday morning leaving home around 7am.

I didn't mention that they had already returned to the States because Sam wanted to surprise all her friends who were not expecting her to be able to attend a baby shower on the Sunday. I'm very pleased for Sam that she is back in sunny San Francisco while we are shivering in the cold and wet!! I'm a bit sad for me because I had things planned for us to do this week (like photoshop lesson and designing me a new header and going to London to check on her flat). Anyway we had a great time with them, enjoying lots of lovely food and wine and a few bottles of champagne along the way. So here's to the next time and this will be when I visit them in a couple of months in time for Thanksgiving~ can't wait as I know some of the things she has planned for me!!

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