Actually that’s not quite the way it happened. For the last week, Jen’s longtime friend M. has been visiting us with her son A. and her brand new husband T. M. has bad travel karma. The last time she traveled (which was also the first time she traveled since high school), there was plane trouble on the way out, and the whole week she was here was the worst week of rain we’ve had here in the ten years we’ve lived here.

For this trip, there was plane trouble on the way out, her son got seriously sick on the third day of the trip, and the plane on the way out was delayed four hours. I don’t think she’s coming back.