CoCo's Corner

This afternoon I went in for a mani and a pedi.  While in there, a little old man walked in and talked to one of the workers there.  Next thing I knew, he was walking in with a woman.  The woman was his wife and she seemed to be very frail and walked with a cane.  He walked her to a chair at the desk to get a manicure.  Just as she got to the chair, she realized she needed to use the restroom.  The gentleman gently and sweetly walked her to the restroom and waited for her, then walked her back to the chair when she was finished.  He then made himself comfortable on a chair in the waiting area while she got her manicure.  It was like one of the sweetest exhibitions of true and complete love I've ever seen. When you're growing up, you think of your parents as old.  Your parents never seem young to you.  I've suddenly realized that the memories I have of them, I am now older than they are in those memories.  Pictures I look at of t...

And the color was GREEN!!!! Ted and I had a week off, so we wanted to go somewhere international.  We sat and planned for London for weeks and neither of us could get really into it.  So - then he suggested Dublin - we looked at the possibilities and they looked good - so we changed to Dublin.  We both finally got excited!! We flew to JFK Airport in New York on Tuesday morning.  We arrived around 3:00.  Our flight to Dublin did not leave until 10:00 - so we had some waiting to do.  We looked at getting food - JFK is expensive - and found a restaurant with burgers for $22.  That is without beverage.  A day pass to the Sky Club was $29 - we chose to hang out there.  We had unlimited food and beverage and a place to sit.  But, it was CROWDED!!! We got first class on our flight to Dublin.  It was not a really long flight, only six hours, and we were there.  The time was around 9:30 Dublin time.  We arrived in the midst o...