'Out Of Gas'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
For them I'm a "tante à la mode de Bretagne" (roughly, a Brittany-style aunt).
Oh, interesting! I wonder why?
I generally have functioned as an aunt to my first cousins. Our age spread isn't the hugest (there are 12 of us, plus two steps, from ages 41 to 14; i'm the 2nd eldest) but I'm much closer in age to most of my aunts and uncles than I am to my cousins.
I don't know how that family didn't realize they had an extra boarding pass, etc.
It was a chartered flight, so they weren't going commercial. I've never personally charted a plane to fly to Paris, so I don't know what the rules are for private planes.
Oh, no--Morgan Freeman is in serious condition after being in a car accident over the weekend. (I love that a big star like that was driving a 1997 Nissan Maxima.)
In better news, all of those Muppet videos that have been appearing on YouTube recently appear to be part of a viral marketing campaign.
It was a chartered flight, so they weren't going commercial.
Ah. But still!
I wonder why?
I think it's probably because Breton families are less mobile and are very close within the extended family, therefore a cousin once removed might be more like an aunt in closeness.
Ah. But still!
Oh, definitely. If you can count your luggage, you can count your kids.
Hmmm.... IKEA stores appear to form some sort of doughnut and Kansas City is in the hole. I guess there is a bite out of the north-northwest section of the doughnut. There are also a lot of extra sprinkles to the east section of the doughnut.
I don't know how that family didn't realize they had an extra boarding pass, etc.
Also, it's one of the busiest days in the airport, ever, so the flying attendants and the likes probably didn't pay full attention, either.
(And, yes - but still.)
I know I'll be bitterly disappointed.
Also, be careful with the rest of the books in what became a series (I have no idea how many of them there are now).
[Edited to: Muppets!]
Duty free shopping? Check. EIGHTEEN suitcases? Check. FiveFour kids? Check.
My parents forgot infant me at my aunt's when they were leaving to move to Cape Breton. They did remember about 10 minutes on the road.
Also, be careful with the rest of the books in what became a series.
I tend to be wary of any books in a series that are not written by the original author. Unless I hear that they are actually good, I don't tend to read them. I lack the urge I get with movies.