In Loco Parentis

June 8th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

Vladimir: Well? Shall we go?
Estragon: Yes, let’s go.

Passed the afternoon yesterday at the Merida aiport waiting for Mac, Penny, Boatsie and Sadie, who never arrived. They are all happy and well at the airport Radisson in Atlanta.

We had wine and nachos at the bar and read People and US Weekly (the airport has the best selection and prices on English language magazines and books). Secrets were revealed, mysteries solved.

Then we moved the party to the arrival area where we met by chance our Canadian friends Louise and Deinah and watched as three Fans fawned over a little nugget of a guy who as it turns out was Jake Lloyd, who played young Anakin Skywalker in Episode 1.

We are trying harder to have fewer expectations, because you never know what the day has in store. It was a futile but fun Thursday in Mexico.

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  1. Comment by Louise Lawrence on 8 June 2007:

    Hey Malcolm and Jillian!
    We LOOOOOVE making it into the Dropped In blog; it’s kind of like being Nicky and Paris Hilton, but without the money, youth, wardrobes, or vapidness!

    Let’s get together while we’re down :)

  2. Comment by mom and dad on 8 June 2007:

    The sun’ll come out
    Tomorrow
    Bet your bottom dollar
    That tomorrow
    There’ll be sun!

    Just thinkin’ about
    Tomorrow
    Clears away the cobwebs,
    And the sorrow
    ‘Til there’s none!

    When I’m stuck with a day
    That’s gray,
    And lonely,
    I just stick out my chin
    And Grin,
    And Say,
    Oh

    The sun’ll come out
    Tomorrow
    So ya gotta hang on
    ’til tomorrow
    Come what may

    Tomorrow!
    Tomorrow!
    I love ya
    Tomorrow!
    You’re always
    A day
    A way!

  3. Comment by Steve on 9 June 2007:

    According to the diaro, Jake Lloyd is in town for a sci-fi convention. How do you say nerd in Spanish?

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