Emotional Release

Cheryl is due to arrive in about an hour. I got a call from Dr. Marchesini last night - I've never been so happy to hear from a man before. *laugh* He has a deeper voice than I expected and none of the nasal twang I associate w/Spanish. But then, he speaks Portugese, not Spanish.

He just got back and got all my emails and said Durval will be at the airport with a van to help us. It was a brief conversation, ut it made me feel so much better. Just hearing from him really. So, I didn't realize how much of a damper it had put on my feelings until they were released.

Got another 3am alarm going off last night. I called down again - two nights in a row? Get it fixed! It's not that's it's a false alarm. It's that it's interrupting my sleep. It took over 2 hours to fall back asleep again. But I did what Susan Lightfoot recommended. I stayed in bed. No lights - Nothing too stimulating and eventually I fell back asleep. I wonder if D'Artagnon misses me? These beds are the most comfortale I've ever slept in. I love the duvet, the feather topper. I would definitely stay in another Sofitel. But man, they gotta fix that alarm!

We'll need to be at the airport at 9pm tomorrow night. That way I can turn the car in, and we'll be there two hours ahead of time for the international flight. I'm dressed down today. Jeans, sneakers and a t-shirt. I don't care. I'm not trying to impress anyone. I dressed up for the flight because they will sometimes upgrade you if you look professional. The flight to Brazil is the long one - I'm hoping to sleep some on that trip. - Cheryl just called. She's on the ground taxi-ing in.

--BT