Saying Goodbye

Sunday 18 July 2010

My mom was able to pack everything in her suitcase. She really had to rearrange everything well, because...I was making her take a bag of mine back to the States. I took more than I needed, and I wanted to have a better trip back to the States than I had coming here. So I basically took the essentials for the rest of my trip and gave everything back. So my really obese bag was coming home with Mom. I was afraid of the weight, because Mom did have restrictions. So I brought my backpack and an empty bag to carry stuff back.

Anne and Alister dropped us all off at our favourite Cafe Metro. We stayed there and talked for a while. Ruth was back! I don't remember if I ever mentioned Ruth, but she is the most amazingly sweet lady. She was our main reason for coming to the Church for a while. She had been gone for 2 months and we missed her terribly. Mom got announced as a visitor and several people introduced themselves to her.

After Church, Mom and I walked around a ways and even had a quick look at The Gathering (a section with booths of things to sell).

Then Alister drove us to the airport. He got a trolley for us and we checked in. The bags were overweight, but they didn't charge us, so we got really lucky. I was so ecstatic. We asked when Mom would have to leave. We found out we could stay together until 3:00. So that is exactly what we did. We walked around the airport several times and talked. When 3:00 came around, it was hard to get motivated. We had several hugs until she absolutely had to go through the line and disappeared. It was hard seeing her leave. I went to catch a bus, and as we left the airport, I saw her plane.

I went to Alison's cafe. She saw me and gave me a hot chocolate. It was really good. Afterwards, I just went home and organised our room. It was quite messy after our major trips. Tomorrow, I start my first day back at work!