Let me start this post with the note that it never occurred to me that it was 911 on this day. I don’t think anyone mentioned it once, although there were plenty of Americans (Jeremy is half American, half British) at the wedding. In some ways I think this is a good thing, a sign of healing.
On to the story…
Woke up at my usual OMG!Early time on Thursday despite the late night. Snuck out of our room and headed to the veranda at the front of the Villa. I had forgotten my journal, but had picked up a cheap notebook at Gatwick and wrote for awhile, then read.
I was joined in about an hour by Chris and Dominique and their son, Bela, who is four months old, so also gets up at OMG!Early. We had a lovely chat and played with the baby. After awhile they went down to the pool, but I thought it was too cold.
At 8:30 breakfast is served so I had a wonderful croissant and some excellent coffee, joined by many others over the course of the morning. I then headed up stairs and put on my bathing suit, as the sun had risen and it had gotten very hot.
The rest of the day was spent by the pool, lazying about, swimming, layering on the sun block. It was a wonderfully quiet day.
Jeremy, Simon, Paul and I think Chris then headed to town and picked up bread and cheese and salami and olives and other wonderful things for lunch. We piled it all on one of the picnic tables and dug in!
Jeremy’s dad, mom and one of his sisters arrived and we all socialized and started drinking some wine, again down by the pool. It was at some point during the day that I realized that our camera was not working correctly. We finally came to the conclusion that there was just too much sun and no way to change the shutter speed or aperture on the cheap thing we own, so we gave up!!
That night we were joined for dinner by about 10 more people, for a total of about 25 people at dinner. Another long lovely meal and off to bed.
Tomorrow – 12th September The Wedding Day!!!