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Post by Carolyn on Feb 15, 2003 18:54:27 GMT -5
Well, tomorrow we take over the boxes of books to a friend's garage and on Thursday, we leave this house, our home for the last year, and move into another friend's spare room for the next 4 weeks, give or take.
Then we get on the Amtrak headed for New York and eventually home. We should be back in our own little flat on April 2nd! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Natooke on Feb 16, 2003 2:36:39 GMT -5
;D ;D
How wonderful ... just a month left.
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Post by Pam on Feb 16, 2003 5:48:19 GMT -5
Yippee! I know you're excited. We're looking forward to having ya'll back on Swedish soil.
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Post by Leslie on Feb 16, 2003 9:27:14 GMT -5
Just in time for Swedish Spring!
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Post by Carolyn on Feb 16, 2003 10:24:36 GMT -5
It's really kind of funny, I've lived all over the U.S. (Idaho, Washington, D.C., Virginia, New York, Tennessee, New Mexico, Colorado, Oregon, Hawaii) and I've lived in England as well, which came very close to being home to me, but I've never been so homesick for a place as I have been for our home in Sweden this last year. Aging, maybe?
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Post by Heather L on Mar 7, 2003 3:20:06 GMT -5
YAY!!!! Well, tomorrow we take over the boxes of books to a friend's garage and on Thursday, we leave this house, our home for the last year, and move into another friend's spare room for the next 4 weeks, give or take. Then we get on the Amtrak headed for New York and eventually home. We should be back in our own little flat on April 2nd! ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by Linda on Mar 8, 2003 10:57:43 GMT -5
Cheer from me too! Hope your journey is a safe and enjoyable one back to beautiful Sweden! Take care, and keep us up to date.  |
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Post by Carolyn on Mar 8, 2003 11:12:00 GMT -5
Thanks for the good wishes everybody. Now pray for the snow to melt in New York City, so we can have our walk through Central Park  Actually, I've now gotten down to the point where I'm saying things like, "Just think, three weeks from tomorrow at this time, we'll be approaching Albany, NY on the train." Driving my husband nuts, by the way. He thinks it makes things go slower, but to me, it's like a ray of sunshine at the end of a long, dark tunne. I just hope we can get out of here before the war starts in earnest, since they're saying that many major tourist attractions will be closed if we go to war, and Anders has never made it to the top of the Empire State Building, not to mention the fact that I really do believe that if we attack Iraq, the US is going to start seeing the same kind of thing that's going on in Israel, i.e., people strapping explosives to themselves and getting on buses here in this country. I sure hope I'm wrong. But on a lighter note, Örebro and Sweden, we'll be back soon. |
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Post by Sabeine on Mar 8, 2003 12:52:38 GMT -5
Does anyone know why NYC got nicknamed "The Big Apple"? It isn't shaped like an apple, and it doesn't grow apples, right? So why the name? Does anyone know this, or know a place to find this out? Chicago "The Windy City", New Orleans "The Big Easy", makes sense, but the Big Apple does not. Anyway Carolyn, have fun in the big city. If they are not still on strike (the stagehands on Broadway) maybe you could go and see a musical. There are very few places in the world with better theater than NYC, it doesn't have to cost so much either. Will-calls often have discounted tickets for rather reasonable prices. My dad and his fiance were in NYC this past November and saw 3 Broadway musicals for a fraction of what they would have cost if they had reserved the tickets ahead. They got good seats too. Have a really fun time! And looking forward to having you back on this side of the Atlantic.  |
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Post by Leslie on Mar 8, 2003 13:51:59 GMT -5
Anna, Why is NY called the big apple? Read here: salwen.com/apple.htmlCarolyn, I hear you on the counting down...have been doing the same for my trip home. I was thinking a while ago this time next week I will be Garage "Sailing"! ;D |
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Post by Sabeine on Mar 8, 2003 17:20:36 GMT -5
Well that was an interesting reason as to why it is called, The Big Apple. I was hoping it wouldn't be so unsavory though. It would have been a nice story if long before the Rockerfellers, and the Astor's, maybe parts of Manhattan were apple groves or something like that, but I guess it wasn't.
I'll never look at an apple the same now. ;D
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Post by Natooke on Mar 19, 2003 9:31:09 GMT -5
Before I get too busy !!!! Have a safe trip you 2  |
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