So, still on vacation......scurrying around Croatia, Slovenia and Italy the last couple of days......
In Ljubljana today, had a terrifically simple, fabulous, home cooked Slovenian meal of sausage, mustard, homegrown/grated horseradish, Slovenian "light" beef stew, some homemade bread, a Slovenian dark beer and a raspberry/white chocolate "dumpling" (actually, a pastry.....mmmm!!). Finish it all up, basking in the afterglow and decided the wife and I should go for a walk. Cruising around oldtown/triple bridge area and who do I run into ? .........
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A couple of very nice ladies that have also traveled the world quite extensively. We got into a conversation about their travels and strangely enough, they had been over in the Phillippines in the late seventies/early eighties. I said
"what a coincidence, I think I know someone that had been there at about the same time"....Well, we got to comparing notes and it sure seems they were/are very well aware of the legendary "1J04". They referrred to him as
"1J Boom boom, all night long". I had a puzzled look on my face and said
"you must be confusing 1J with someone else". They were not pleased with my response and were quite adamant that I was wrong and that they wanted to get back in touch with 1J. I was a little concerned as their tone had quickly and dramatically changed from when we first started talking. I was worried they would call their boyfriends and there would be retribution for possibly having insulted them.
J; as a result, after multiple protestations, I finally felt the best thing to do was to honor their "request" to provide them with your address and phone number. As luck would turn out, they are going to be flying in to Seattle next week, renting a car and "seeing the sights". They said that they miss you very much and you are on the top of their list of people/things to go see. They said they have a lot of catching up to do with you, which sounds very promising.
I told them that sounded wonderful, but unfortunately, I will be in the Los Angeles area on business all next week and I was sorry I would not be able to attend or host the re-union personally.
If something comes up and I can be of further help, please let me know. I feel really good about what I have been able to do to help everyone up to this point and I will do everything I can to help push a good situation over the goal line.
Oh, and it was kind of odd.....as we all came closer to approaching triple bridge, there were a group of students there that made a series of "outloud" comments to the nice ladies. I don't speak Slovenian, but based upon the reaction from the two ladies, I'm not so sure the 6th graders weren't making some unjust, disparaging remarks against these fine women. You know how 6th graders can be...... It almost seemed as though the children knew the women and vis versa. Maybe the women knew the childern's Fathers......I don't know...
