[As we were leaving the ship for the last time, I turned to our crew and said, “do svidaniya.” It’s a phrase I’ve heard many times in movies involving Russians. It’s a polite way of saying “until we meet again” instead of the more final “good bye.” I then heard one of the crew say to another, “Where’d that come from?” Ha!]
[Alexey guided us one last time, helping us navigate through the airport procedures to get to our gate. It was a piece of cake, easier than any other airport we’ve been through . . . ]
[We came home via Paris . . . ]
[The Super lined up a little extra leg room for us . . . ]
[I don’t sleep and now can’t recall all the movies I watched over and back . . . ]
[I believe one was Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri . . . ]
[Little did we realize while winging our way home . . . ]
[That four months later we would be taking our third overseas junket of the year – to Spain. Well, it would be four if Wisconsin counted as being overseas.]
Adventure, yeah. I guess that’s what you call it when everybody comes back alive. ~ Mercedes Lackey
The Journey Begins
Thanks for joining me! This is the follow-up to the original, “alexandriacardinals.wordpress.com,” which overwhelmed the system’s ability to handle it any more. Thus, this is “Part 2.” As the original was initially described:
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“It all began in a 5,000 watt radio station in Fresno, California” . . . wait a minute, that was Ted Baxter on the Mary Tyler Moore Show! Let’s see . . . oh yeah, it all began in 2003 when retirees, i.e., old people, in Alexandria, Minnesota, who had no desire to become snow birds, went looking for mid-winter entertainment here in the frozen tundra of West Central Minnesota. We discovered girls’ high school hockey, fell in love immediately, and it remains our favorite spectator sport to this day. Initially, and for several years, reports on these games were e-mailed to those who were actually snowbirds but wanted to keep abreast of things “back home.” It was ultimately decided a blog would be more efficient, and it evolved into a personal diary of many things that attracts tens of readers on occasion. It remains a source of personal mental therapy and has yet to elicit any lawsuits.
~ The Editor, May 9, 2014
p.s. The photo border around the blog is the Cardinal girls’ hockey team after just beating Breck for the state championship in 2008. It’s of the all-tournament team. The visible Breck player on the left is Milica McMillen, then an 8th-grader – she is now an All-American for the Gophers. The Roseau player in the stocking cap I believe is Mary Loken, who went on to play for UND; and the Cardinal player on the right, No. 3, is Abby Williams, the player we blame most for making us girls’ hockey fans who went on to play for Bemidji State.
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Photos contained herein are available for personal use. All you have to do is double click on any of the photos and they will become full screen size. You can then save them into your personal “My Pictures” file. They make lovely parting or hostess gifts, or holiday gifts for such as Uncle Ernie who wants to see how his grand niece is doing on the hockey team. If any are sold for personal profit, however, to, for example, the Audubon Society, National Geographic, Sven’s Home Workshop Monthly, Curling By The Numbers, or the World Wrestling Federation, I only request that you make a donation to the charitable organization of your choice. You have two hours and fifteen minutes. Pencils ready? Begin!
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