Time to Travel!

Time to Travel

We are going to London! We’ll see Sam and his kids, and I’ll have a break in my routine. Beth, my granddaughter Nkiru, and I are getting set to go!

Sam left on Wednesday. Today, Saturday, the children have gone to a camp in Birmingham, 100 miles northwest of London. Sam is at dinner with a friend who lives in the city.

And I didn’t realize he was taking the children to camp today, though I’m sure he told me!

Beth, Nkiru and I have not figured out what we need in our record of vaccinations. I assume I’ll need my vaccination record with dates. Do we need recent tests? No idea yet but will hope to have it revealed soon!

Sam had a difficult time getting ready for this trip. The worst problem was when he discovered that Bruche’s passport had expired!

He submitted it in plenty of time to get a new one by Thursday last week. But in the end he had to wait until Tuesday, the day before they left! So he didn’t make reservations on Air B&B until they were about to go. He tried a couple of times from Lagos, then in London. Still he found they were full, even though the reservation said they were free! Now he’s staying in a hotel or at a friend’s house while the children are away.

Maybe he will try again when the children are coming back in 11 or 12 days. They will stay until September 1st or 2nd.

Fun in London

Well, we’re in London so we’ll have to go to Harrods! Maybe I’ll try on this outfit, or maybe not!

Do I want to see the museums? No, I don’t think so.

Where else would we like to see? Sam says we’ll take the ride on the big wheel, the major one that looks over London. Surely we’ll go to Buckingham Palace.

I’d like to go to Hampstead, and see if our old house is still there!

We’ll stay from the 17th to the 27th. We’re going on Business Class for Beth and me, and Extended Economy for Nkiru. I had asked Chinaku, my older son, to book my tickets. At first he objected to Extended Economy for Nkiru. In the end he finally gave way and booked all our tickets for us!

Chinaku took Sam to the airport on Wednesday.

My Memoir

Heidi Olsen, my classmate from the Yale School of Management, says she is intrigued by my book, the memoir. The second, the one on Breaking Kola: An Inside View of African Customs, I would have to give it to her.

I had no idea she had the memoir with her. In her stack of unread books she discovered this, picked it up, and read it.

She did not realize I had come to SOM having just left Nigeria a few days before. I think I may have connected with her in our last reunion. But I had forgotten.

She said she would talk to others about the book. Already she mentioned one, Patty Nolan. I believe she would like me to talk. I’d be happy to do that.

It would be fun! Given my stroke of a year ago, I am a little apprehensive. But I don’t think I’ll leave out any significant points in my talk. I will have an outline, even a write-up, so I can follow that.

The events in Nigeria were certainly important to me. The civil war, 1967-1970, was major. So were my times in Trinity House, and Nigerwives’ founding. There were so many more!

I will have to choose which ones to highlight. I have told her I am ready to proceed in the fall, though with a small group! Maybe I’ll do the same later with a larger group!