Tuesday, September 05, 2006
SSA Breakfast
Hello! Well, I went to the SLB Spouse's Assoc. Breakfast yesterday. This picture today is not what we had for breakfast. I know people eat these little guys though. This as some of you know is what looks like our common blue birds and they sell them here in the grocery stores. They are some really tiny birds. Back to the breakfast. We had a good time. It was the first one of the year. The association starts its new year on September 1. It is held the first Monday of every month. They try to have an event later on in the month for us to do too. There is one man who attends. His wife works for Schlumberger. He is a house husband. Apparently everyone likes him. He and his wife have a little boy. I think he said Max is 6 months old. The rest of the people are women. My neighbor is the president this year. Her name is Penny. She is funny, nice and an on the go person. Her husband is from Graham, Tx. She is from another little town near Graham. She has 4 girls. Two older ones and two younger ones. Her next door neighbor is a really sweet woman named Grace. She is Indian. She is funny, but shy. I really enjoyed her. They came across our little compound and picked me up. We then went to another compound and picked up another woman named Moo. That is her nickname. She is from Indonesia. She says her real name is too long and hard for everyone to use. LOL! She is a real tiny women. She has two girls too. Hers are teenagers. She was on her 3rd day of being here. She is real nice too. We headed out for the hotel we were having breakfast at. Now they served breakfast or breakfeast as they spell it, but in my opinion it was brunch time. It started at 10:00am. Traffic was horrible, so we went on a bunch of back roads and went cross country a few times. She was a good safe driver though. We got there on time. If we had just sat in the traffic we wouldn't have gotten there till very late. There were 21 of us there. Mike's boss was there and she brought her little boy Max. He would not stay in the nursery but he was ok. He didn't let his Mom visit much but that was ok. Anyway, everyone who was new got a welcome bag. We got a book that I live by here in town. I need to give mine back so that they can give it to someone else that comes in new. We bought one a week or two ago. We got a magazine and a few other little things. We filled out information sheets and visited a lot. All of the new people got their pictures taken as a group. When it was time to leave the woman who was sitting on my left, Angela, who is from Aberdeen and pregnant rode home with us. She is a really nice person. She was there for the first time because she was on her first day of maternity leave. Her husband works for Schlumberger too. This is her first baby and is due on the 29th of this month. She had a doctor's appointment before the breakfast and visited the hospital too. We brought her home because she lived in the same compound as Moo. We had fun driving all of the back roads getting from one place to another. The lady that sat on my right was from France and I can't remember her name. She had only been here a week. She also has 2 teenaged daughters. She was kind of shy because she thought she didn't speak very good English. I thought she did pretty darn good. There were 4 or 5 women on the other side of the table that were all from Texas. One of them has a husband from Lafayette. His parents still live there. Ok, now that is about half of the people there and I know 5 of them by name. That is pretty good for me. I am so bad with names. About half of the people there were new. We all had a good time. Well, we leave tomorrow night for home. I have everything packed except for the last minute things. I don't think we are going to be over the weight limit this time. Mike wanted me to start packing 3 days ago and I told him no. I got most of it all packed yesterday afternoon in about 2 hours. I was washing too. I don't know if I will have to wash anything for him before we leave or not. I have to unload my purse into my computer bag, but other than that I am about ready. We have eaten just about every left over in the frig, so we are doing pretty good. Who knows what we will have for supper. I am going to go vacuum the kitchen and living room and then I think I will be done for today. This will be my first time to get to really take my time and check out the Amsterdam airport. Hopefully after that we will get to sleep a lot going over the water. LOL! I know I will be tired. We will have already been up for 24 hours when we leave Amsterdam. Sounds fun already, huh? LOL! Well, it won't be long now till we see a bunch of you. Have a great day!
Debbie
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Hey,
I am trying again. I love all the info. I want to know how you are doing and you are so good at giving all the details. Glad you can have party bacon. BA and Jared came over yesterday and she brought some for us to munch on while we visited.
See ya soon
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I am trying again. I love all the info. I want to know how you are doing and you are so good at giving all the details. Glad you can have party bacon. BA and Jared came over yesterday and she brought some for us to munch on while we visited.
See ya soon
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