So East it's Ouest

  Ahh so it's only been 4 days but 4 days of a massive amount of change.  So let's see...  First off may I say again Lucia {loo chee ah} (the Italian sister I'm staying with) is amazing, if this system continues I hope I'm as hard working, selfless, positive, classy (cough and as good of a cook cough) as her, she really is a gem.  She could say 'tonight we are going to eat boiled shoes' and I would say 'yum sounds delicious, I wonder how she is going make that', it's like she walks into any kitchen (other people's houses included) and walks out with a 5 course meal and a patisserie style apple tarte.   She is actually in the process of working out how to rent this house to 'curistes', people coming here for the spa, the thermal springs, and she is going to move in with her sister in Sicily.  This is the family's longtime home and the home she shared with her husband who died a few years back, you can tell it's super hard on her to

Thank you everyone for supporting me as I got ready for this trip, including silencing me as I pondered aircraft disasters.  I hate goodbyyyyes.  Either way my trip started today flying from the Fort to Philly.  The pope arrives tomorrow and everything is a souvenir for his visit.  And I thought that Mary had lots of statues...  There are several priests walking around in the terminals looking forward to pope Francis visit.  I will say that the Philly airport has some good taste in music none of that dentist office stuff, I was helping older ladies with the hydration stations so they could save a few bucks and walking around trying to keep my legs a' moving.  The Brussels flight was originally scheduled to be nearly an hour early ended up leaving 30mins late because of a poor girl that kept getting sick in the back of the plane, she had to be let off as well as a flight attendant that was caught in the line of fire.  😁   I sat next to a Belgian man who grumbled (somewhat good natu