August 27, 1987

Note:  Exchange rate $1,010 Canadian is 4,500 Francs

Thursday, August 27, 5:36 p.m.

On Tuesday we went to the airport at 2 p.m. to check our bags & get our seats.  Then, we went home and had pizza for supper.  Emily loves pizza. But she scrapes all the topping off and leaves the crust.

After supper, Emily and I went to the park.  Mummy went for a walk and met us at the park. Emily likes going down the slide on her "pummy" and she likes the swings.  Her favourite pastime is pushing the stroller around the gravel parking area.

After the park, we had a shower (bath for Emily) and waited for the limo to take us to the airport.  He was 10 minutes late, arriving at 9:10, but we made it to the terminal by 9:45.

All the way to the airport, Emily repeated "Me, Bill, plane, Stuart, Bames" (James) over and over.

The plane was a DC 8. The stewardesses both told us that Emily was a doll and so good. Emily only slept for an hour on the plane.  We had a stopover at Birmingham.  She was a bit cranky by then.  Mo & Bill met us in Manchester.

Cathy & I went with Bill into Preston, shopping, on Wednesday afternoon.

Emily got so tired, she couldn't eat supper.  All she could do by 7 p.m. was cry.  So, when we got her calm, she went straight to sleep.  Cathy followed shortly after 8.

I sat up with Bill & Mo discussing plans for the trip and sampling brandy (Fundador brandy) and British bitters.  I went to bed at 10:30.

About 1:30 I was awakened by Emily's cries.  Cathy was up with her.  I went back to bed.  Emily and Cathy were up a couple of hours.  Emily ate some cottage cheese & something (else) & then she came into bed with us.

We all got up about 10 this morning.

Cathy called Maureen (her friend Miekle).  We  goto Liverpool tomorrow by train to spend a day with her.

When Emily had her nap, Cathy & I went to Ruffort Old Hall.  Bill dropped us off on his way to physical therapy.  He was in a a bad biking accident in France a few weeks before.

Mo is preparing supper and Cathy is changing Emily at the moment.