A New Tie

Gosh, how time flies!  Suddenly it's Saturday and things are finally slowing down.  Yesterday was haircuts for the trip and on the way we stopped at a fabric store to find some matching ribbon for our Oaxacan-style ties (braided cording with horsehair tassels).  We bought the tassels some time ago after wresting the information of where he got his fabulous tie from the co-owner of a boutique store we favor, but put off changing out the elastic for coordinated ribbons until just before we had to have it. 

Unfortunately, during the process of matching ties to ribbons, I managed to misplace one of the ties (Michael's!), so today I walked into town to the artsy-fartsy street with the shop from which we first purchased them.  Luckily, they still had one golden yellow tie left.  (Michael favors yellow.) So we're now ready for the cruise, tie-wise.  No one else will have these ties to go with their tuxedos - hee, hee, hee!  Most of our fellow passengers won't know where Oaxaca is, much less that they have a traditional style of tie.

And our kitchen cabinets did not arrive today.  We're now being told Monday.  I've told our people that they'd better pick up keys to the house as we leave at 1:00 AM Tuesday morning.  It would be nice to find the kitchen magically transformed in our absence....but I'd like to be here for placement of the pantry cabinet.

Oh, well, sometimes you need to let go....

We won't be staying at the Villas at Wilderness Lodge on this trip - nor will we be able to enjoy the Hoop-de-Doo dinner show, but perhaps next time. Instead we have my old boss and hubbie joining us for the first part of the vacation at WDW and ressies for the second half.

One slight disappointment with our cruise is that the new ship is too large to stop at Key West - which I've always wanted to visit since seeing a Jamie Lee Curtis/ Arnold What's-his-name film, True Lies. (I've loved Jamie Lee Curtis since A Fish Called Wanda.)  We will be visiting Key West on Disney cruise #12 before the Panama Canal cruise next May (if things don't change before then...).  I've also got Jamaica on my bucket list, to visit Noel Coward's last home in Ocho Rios and drink a martini-toast to him.  But another time.  There's always time, right?

I've got Fiyero wanting his dinner, so I suppose I should wrap this up.  Michael tells me that although the Pope will be celebrating a mass in Silao tomorrow, we've also got pilgrims arriving in town from Antotonilco, so fireworks in the morning!