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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Cancer / April 2006Penny & Fig in San Francisco
We are here & having a ball. Nary a raindrop to spoil our good time. Penny is just as delightful as you would expect - full of life & fun & wonderfully accomodatiing of Fig's eccentricities. There is one thing tho & Penny must be held accountable. The hotel supplies a rubber ducky so that one need never bathe alone. This particular model is (was) fully equipped for the baseball season with blue helmet & bat. It disappeared within moments of check--in. Penny insists it has gone to a 'safe place' but refuses to divulge where. We have rode those cable cars to the stars & back. Yesterday we took a bus over the Golden Gate bridge & then took a commuter ferry back. Then rode streetcars back to near the hotel & the cable cars back up. Then last night, Penny had her picture taken at he corner of Haight & Ashbury - a place she's fantasied about since adolesence. Then we went to Sock's favorite neighborhood bar in the Haight with beers on tap you wouldn't imagine would be on tap anywhere. Now Penny is a gal used to calling cabs wherever she goes while Fig uses any & all public transportation. Penny's a sport. We have tickets tonight to an event at the opera house & city hall (awesome buildings) given to us Saturday night by a friend we ate dinner with. Yesterday we bought Penny new duds so she can strut her stuff there. Penny's a bit of a sleepyhead, so I'll go up now & give her a gentle push in the direction of breakfast. Her husband calls several times/day to kake sure she's OK & made her write her life history on a piece of paper in her wallet. He's quite attentive & worries about the time she'll be on the plane 'by herself' between the times I get off in Denver & she in Edmonton. Really, Penny is very sturdy & if it weren't for her cough, you wouldn't suspect a thing were wrong. Well, Penny has just made her appearance here in the lobby, so we're off for another day of sight-seeing! Fig > We are here & having a ball. Nary a raindrop to spoil our good time. > Penny is just as delightful as you would expect - full of life & fun & > wonderfully accomodatiing of Fig's eccentricities. Still waters run deep - Penny can't keep up with you. Please take cabs. > There is one thing tho & Penny must be held accountable. The hotel > supplies a rubber ducky so that one need never bathe alone. This > particular model is (was) fully equipped for the baseball season with > blue helmet & bat. It disappeared within moments of check--in. Penny > insists it has gone to a 'safe place' but refuses to divulge where. LOL - tell her I'll alert customs that she's importing an animal. <g> Have fun but make sure Penny takes it easy/save energy stores where possible so she can have fun at the fun parts. Hugs to you both. J > > We are here & having a ball. Nary a raindrop to spoil our good time. > > Penny is just as delightful as you would expect - full of life & fun & [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Hugs to you both. > J hehehehe...... Fig can't keep up with me! LOL Please don't tell on me as I love my rubber ducky and desperately need to get it home to keep it safe and happy. Otherwise the poor thing willl have to go home with Fig. Now would you do that to rubber ducky??????? Wait till you hear what she did to me tonight. Lets just say that we hit the end of the line on, not 1 but 2 buses!! Get that, 2 buses!! Finally found our way home, thanks to me. *giggle* Penny (and Fig too) Just remember there are 2 sides to every story & I have mine... Fig (and Penny too) > hehehehe...... Fig can't keep up with me! LOL > > Please don't tell on me as I love my rubber ducky and desperately need > to get it home to keep it safe and happy. Otherwise the poor thing > willl have to go home with Fig. Now would you do that to rubber > ducky??????? Nope. I won't rat on you, but I might start a Society for the Prevention of abuse of rubbie duckies. (S.P.A.R.D) They need protecting from Alayne's bunch. :p > Wait till you hear what she did to me tonight. Lets just say that we > hit the end of the line on, not 1 but 2 buses!! Get that, 2 buses!! Bummer ! Were there buses running back the other way? I've heard of some who got to what they did not know was the last stop and driver stood up and said "get off, I'm heading to the bus garage and there's no other buses coming until 6 a.m.." Hopefully they've changed that here or warn people at earlier stops. What was the solution? > Finally found our way home, thanks to me. *giggle* > > Just remember there are 2 sides to every story & I have mine... Some friends of mine went to SF, some years ago. Loved the drive down there. Had a blast. Hope you all will too. ( ( ( Fig and Penny ) ) ) J >> hehehehe...... Fig can't keep up with me! LOL >> [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > ( ( ( Fig and Penny ) ) ) > J OK, I'll admit it since I have a witness who refuses to shut up about it. Penny WAS the first to notice we were standing on a 1-way street waiting for a bus to take us in the opposite direction:-) Since we couldn't tell from the map exactly where the bus went & the street was only 1-way for a block or 2, we decided (how did you guess, J?) to take it in the opposite direction from where we wanted to go, theinking it wound loop around & head back our way. It did, until the driver announced he was going for a coffee break. He did give us 2 bus numbers for continuing the journey in the direction we wanted to go from the stop where he left us. One came along shortly. Then he ended his trip just 1 long block short of where we wanted to go to catch the cable car up, up, up to our hotel. Fortunately, the cable cars were still running when we got there & we arrived back at the hotel safe & sound. The cable cars ran right by the hotel making life easy & fun for us. They were Penny's favorite. The refurbished streetcars were OK too, but lacked the drama of the cable cars. The best part of the trip was meeting Penny & getting to know her.We took it easy & stopped for coffee & snacks often. I really can't say Penny seemed to need those stops more than I did! Gone are my days of walking back downtown from the wharf. Yesterday we went to Chinatown & planned other things but enjoyed naps in lieu of more shopping. I'll remember this trip & sharing it with Penny for the rest of my life. She's one great (& fun) lady. So now she's back with her husband, kids & grandkids. And I'll be back at work tomorrow morning. And Penny & I have our pictures & our memories. Fig, back home with kitties >>> hehehehe...... Fig can't keep up with me! LOL >>> [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > cars were still running when we got there & we arrived back at the > hotel safe & sound. For the most part, Fig has it right, except for the fact that the 1st driver dropped us off and it was a deserted street, no one around, 11 at night. We asked, "Is it safe?" He said, Yeah, you will be fine, this is a (gay) or (great) neighborhood. We couldn't quite make out which he said, but either way it seemed we were okay. :) (I'm positive he said gay and was dying laughing at that!) He even said, once he was done his coffee break, he would come back around to see if we were still there and pick us up. People in SF are wonderful and very helpful. We encountered that a lot. It was so nice to see how a large city doesn't have to lose it's friendliness along the way. :) And, the 2nd driver was going for a coffee break too! and, the 1 long block that Fig talks about was more like 5 blocks full of street people set up for the evening. Now that was a long walk but turned out to be okay. Small city girl that I am, just wasn't used to the street people. They were actually very nice and helpful too. > The cable cars ran right by the hotel making life easy & fun for us. > They were Penny's favorite. The refurbished streetcars were OK too, [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Fig, back home with kitties I am so glad that we had this opportunity. It was awesome. Fig is one great lady and made the trip lots of fun and laughs - she's very cute at times and kept me rolling in laughter. I actually think I wore her out though. hehehehe Will post pictures of our trip once I can organize them. Penny > > OK, I'll admit it since I have a witness who refuses to shut up about > > it. Penny WAS the first to notice we were standing on a 1-way street [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > Will post pictures of our trip once I can organize them. Well, I'm glad you're both back safe and had lots of fun and laughs. Look forward to reading more and the pics, of course. Hugs to you both, J > Just remember there are 2 sides to every story & I have mine... > > Fig (and Penny too) Can;t wait to here both sides of the stories.......safe traveling. Alex> > We are here & having a ball. Nary a raindrop to spoil our good time. > Penny is just as delightful as you would expect - full of life & fun & > wonderfully accomodatiing of Fig's eccentricities. You missed the deluge of March. Too bad I didn't realize you were in the neighborhood. I'd have invited you (both) down for a trip to our Aquarium. If you can fit it in don't hesitate to let us know. Post a message on the NG and I'll send you contact info. If you don't have a car, forget it. It's too far to walk. :=] Bob & Barbara  SignatureMake it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot. Bob in Carmel, CA >> We are here & having a ball. Nary a raindrop to spoil our good time. >> Penny is just as delightful as you would expect - full of life & fun [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Bob & Barbara Bob, We would have loved to have met you & your wife. It would have been very special. Our time there was short & we (alas) had no car. We had spoken of the aquarium also, but couldn't work it in this trip. Fig > Well, Penny has just made her appearance here in the lobby, so we're > off for another day of sight-seeing! > > Fig Have a ball! Love the cable cars, good to hear the weather is cooperating with you both. Alex > We are here & having a ball. Nary a raindrop to spoil our good time. > Penny is just as delightful as you would expect - full of life & fun & [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > blue helmet & bat. It disappeared within moments of check--in. Penny > insists it has gone to a 'safe place' but refuses to divulge where. Hi Fig, Really great to hear you guys are having such a fandabidozy time, I think it's great you girls got together. Won't keep you long you'll be busy painting the town red. Warm Hugs to you both Alayne p.s. I had to smirk at the rubber duck!! If I'd have known Pen had a yen for them, there's some left over from the rally but they would probably need a wash ;-) > We are here & having a ball. Nary a raindrop to spoil our good time. > Penny is just as delightful as you would expect - full of life & fun & > wonderfully accomodatiing of Fig's eccentricities. I assume you met with John Holtzclaw. Unfortunately, I was in Phoenix last week or I would have tried to meet with you. I sent the story about Sock's law to Carl Pope and the Planet. Signature****************************************** * This is the Spammish Inquisition * * Not Lumber Cartel Unit 75 [TINLC] * * http://bobcathoh.50megs.com/tinLC/ * * david l kayp at earthlink dot net * ****************************************** Fig, Thank you for taking care of Penny and showing her such a wonderful time! From the sounds of it, I think it would have been a hoot to have been a fly on the wall at times! lol No doubt some great memories were made. Couldn't help but giggle at how often her hubby called her....but it shouldn't surprise me. He does that at home here! :) Trish > We are here & having a ball. Nary a raindrop to spoil our good time. > Penny is just as delightful as you would expect - full of life & fun & [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > Fig > Thank you for taking care of Penny and showing her such a wonderful time! > From the sounds of it, I think it would have been a hoot to have been a fly [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Trish Waving "hi" to Trish. Good to know so many people are looking out for Penny. Hugs J |
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