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Monday, June 18, 2007 - 2:21 AM
Shall we say Cecelia got her groove back in Paris? And that we did indeed have cafe at les Deux Magots on the Left Bank? And walked the little streets to the quai and then the Louvre (where we did NOT, I'm happy to say, take the Da Vinci tour!)? And that the Mona Lisa room also has wonderful Veroneses and some Titians, and on the way there is a great Botticelli fresco? After Venus de Milo we had lunch at l'Ardoise off the rue de Rivoli, and Aidan fell asleep almost on top of his steak. The fam was understandably cranky off and on, but generally put up with me and I had a great time! The Gracia Guesthouse here in Nairobi is terrific -- Anya who suggested it is my new guru and Ben the omelet chef is Brigid's new best friend. Tom and my bag is the only one that (STILL!) has not arrived, so yesterday he bought a shirt at the YaYa center and I bought an African tie-dye skirt & top -- so nice to change clothing after three and a half days. Tom has been alternately enjoying Nairobi and getting increasingly frustrated about our bag (which we're told is arriving from Amsterdam, but each flight seems to come in without it), so we took him out for a nice Father's Day dinner at an Ethiopian restaurant last night where we ate on cow-skin covered drums and he drank Tusker, a Kenyan beer. He was much happier afterwards. We went to the Anglican cathedral for church yesterday and the sermon was on taking responsibility for HIV/AIDS, and how people should not be demonized for having it, but taking responsibility seemed to mean abstinence. So I asked the priests on my way out whether they believed all condom use was a sin. Maggie, Aidan is fine -- who knows what "diseased" means? I told him it would be fascinating to spend a day in his mind! love to all...
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