Airport this morning

Late last night (early this morning)
I heard the screen door slam (well, we don't have a screen door)
And a big yellow taxi (a big yellow plane)
Took away my old man (well, he's not that old yet)
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

-Joni Mitchell

OK, I am certainly about 15 posts behind, but I had to comment on the lovely time David and I had here in Vienna the last 10 days. Of course they went by too quickly, and it was hard (in many ways) to get up at 4am this morning to take him to the airport.

Funny thing happened when I was dragging my sad self out of the airport, buying my ticket for the schnellbahn to get my weary self back to bed. Three Thai ladies came down the stairs with their suitcases (it's 5:30am) and they asked me in pretty good English how to buy a ticket from the machine. So I helped them choose the right ticket and I even made change for them. They were very nice. I could tell that they weren't native English speakers (and they probably didn't speak any German since they didn't even try to talk to me in German), and so I spoke clearly. At the end of the transaction they said to me with vigor, "My, you're English is so good!" to which I replied, "I hope so, I'm from America!" They BURST out laughing - it was so funny. Only in Vienna...