Francis, We loved meeting you and Bart at the convention. It was quite a treat to see all your threads and the question and answer (not a lecture) on Thursday night was very enlightening. Your knowledge of your product is very impressive.
I love reading your impressions of your first visit to this country. Although my flight was only 4 hours, I was also unable to knit comfortably on the plane. Coming home was much better. Did you have any potatoes while you were here? Diane Williams drswilli...@yahoo.com Galena Illinois USA My blog - http://dianelaces.wordpress.com/ ________________________________ From: Francis Busschaert <francis.busscha...@telenet.be> To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Sunday, August 9, 2009 9:43:31 AM Subject: [lace] our USA ioli adventure part 1 hallo to all So we went to the USA I finaly did not take knitting needles on the plane because i all to well remember that custums and airportsecurity peolpe lac any kind of "polite" and "frindly comprehensive" caracter i beleve they are specialy trained in beeing a **** in the ****. it is at your own imagination to fill in the ****. when i finaly was on that plane, I a was happy not to have my knittigneedles there is no place to move around my arms and elbows to knit...... not whitout hurting the co-passengers anyway so no knitting i fly a lot evry year in europe short cityhoppers so in and out the plane and it is always out of holliday periods so i forgot how it is when you do travel in holidayperiods what it is like to have very small, small and even bigger children on the plane or the nonstop blond narative waterfall or big dinosoruslike persons next to you or behind you whom just fit in the chair and even beyond that chair and were you have to dwell and survive for 8 painfully long hours evry airbreeding movement and other fysical movements were you feel the knees of that person alllll to wellll in your back where you see and mostly hear the children of parents whom lost the parental battle against there own monsters a veryyy long time ago boy o boy i still want children but that are the moments were you realy think twice.... somehow you seem to not feel the dinosaur anymore somehow you seem to not notice the little gremlins anymore somehow you seem to be able to dwell in a state of sleeping and "not noticing" all the rest we survived the trip and suddenly you are in Los Angeles it was the first time we were in the USA it realy is DIFFEREND not in big ways but in small remarcable thinghs the first thing we noticed was the imens amounts of traffic and all those small busses for the hotels, and carparks etcetc sooooooo many traffic and soooooo big cars, driving monsters on 4 or more wheels big bigger bigest shining metal monsters we did not see any old cars it was like a new presenting carshow we took the ride to the hotel settled down and asked at the concierge were we could find a supermarket BIG MISTAKE...... he said only 10 minutes around the corner a bit further welll those 10 minutes became 45 minutes of walking realllll walking in skin burning SUN and hot air i felt like a vampire in the sun and i was smimming in my own underware... that was the first time we noticed the "small distinct " other way of seeing distances at that point were were awake for 28 hours, to give you a bit the feelling we had in our remainders of brain we espacily go first to see supermarkets when we arrive in other countrys for us it is like a "contempary museum of the living culture" or like "the ambasy of lifestyl" what you see there is what you will get for the rest of the time beeing so my remarks are were do you find non sugar containing yogurt and when i say non sugar i do not want some kind of fake/synthetic sugar in it like aspartaan or what ever we could not find any natural non sugartasty yogurt IMPOSSIBLE and the more you see other products the more you notice that vertualy all is sugary, sweetend, honny......... where are those lovly hard baked cookies biscuits and other delights? it seems to be mostly half baked whatevers i like them crunchy what the HELL happend whit chocolate in the USA why does all chocolate products taste like ....... well i can not decribe it must be some recycled wasteproduct of the pertochem industry my god that is in the eys of us belgiums (and swiss) like blasfamy ""you shall not rape or violate the taste of chocolate"" why does the fish smells like it came by "slow" animal transport from Argentina..... what is the difference between 1% fatfree milk and 2% fatfree milk and please do not tell me 1% difference and i forgot a lot of those little differences they will come..... so we bought our selection of never tried before goods and headed back to the hotel when we arrived in the hotel we felt like yellifis and went straight to bed the next morning we were a wake at 3.00 3.30 4.00 .....and at 5.00 in the morning the 2 of us were already fully awake we coudl unfortunatly not shed off the belgium timeline i never had that big difference in time before it is a real bodyand mind killer i still do not understand how longdistance flycrews can cope whit it its a wonder no more planecrash hapen ....... that fisrt day we took a small bustrip first stop manhatten beach to see the passific the one ocean i had never seen before it was nice warm toooo hot again but nice from the breese in the air we stopped at the starbucks drink some coffees and noticed again some very bizare usa-behavier some not so skinny persons asked a coffee whit lowfat milk BUT whit whipped cream on it.... yeaahhhhh like that will work 1 -1 = 0 like eating negative weightwatchers poits.... lol - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. 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