Tearjerker alert: Lara left yesterday morning to go back to the U.S.
After Annabelle and I dropped her off at the train station, I allowed myself the whole morning for moping and taking everything far too seriously. And then I got out of bed, went "running", took care of basic personal grooming needs, and got down to the business of planning for my last few classes. If I sound self-congratulatory it's because initiating all of that activity took super-human strength, given the weight of knowing that Lille is now without its Lara.
What we'd look like as a pair of Dutch farmers:
Over the weekend Lara, Annabelle and I drove to the Netherlands to see some tulips, which were so numerous and colourful that I doubt my overwhelmed retinas will ever recover. I'm having trouble uploading photos so I will have to post all about that in a few days. For now, here is one shot taken from inside Keukenhof, the fantastically enormous flower gardens in South Holland:
You know how sometimes when you spend a LOT of time with the same couple of people, even the best among us can't help feeling a little tense? Well, with L & A, I never felt like that. The more time we spent together, the goofier we got, and the more roving and unintelligible became our jokes. It was heaven to meet these two goof-balls and go roaming across the continent with them, and it's annoying how we all have to split up now. Thank goodness for Skype and for the fifty thousand emails we've already sent each other, even though it's only been two days!
See you in September, BG!
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