Welcome, Jenny

Javier and I have just taken apart the mounted tapa cloth* to take it to the airport to welcome Jenny, who can step right onto it after she goes through security, something we didn't have to do back in 1988 or whenever it was that Andrea welcomed us in the Durango airport and had tapa as the red-carpet treatment along with champagne.  (We're taking Taittenger, a name I didn't know.  Someone gave it to me a while back, and I just checked it online just to be sure it's not the kind that like Daddy's staple Cold Duck, according to a bartender-psychologist friend of Daddy's--the Glass Crutch bartender-- gives people headaches.  The price of Taittenger, it turns out, goes into the hundreds, though on sale you can get it for "only" $90.00.)  We have Andrea on video, serving champagne and asking Jonathan whether he'd had a good trip.  "I threw up four times," he says.  "Only four times?" Andrea asks.  That was the trip when Jonathan and I were separated on the flight, but the flight attendant said, "Maybe someone will change seats so you can sit together."  The man at the window seat next to Jonathan ignored her and kept reading his newspaper.  Then, after we'd taken off, I looked back and saw that Jonathan was about to barf.  I reached for a barf bag but couldn't get it to him in time, and as soon as his breakfast had run its course, the man next to Jonathan asked me, "Would you like to sit next to him?"
"No, I wouldn't want you to have to give up your window seat," I said.  But I think I moved. 


I'm so happy that Jenny will have a stop-over giving us some time together.  I even sacrificed View and Chew, the French-practicing group of people who watch Un village francais together once a month.  In addition to the tapa cloth and champagne, I'll treat Jenny and Javier to brunch and load Jenny up with as much Trader Joe's treats as she can handle for her flight onto Detroit and Ithaca, New York. 

Jenny, by the way, is coming back after being in Bali, Singapore, and Thailand.

Now I want to write something in praise of Javier.

*I'll explain about the tapa cloth and what Suzy suggested when she was over with china from Mom.