The problem with having to postpone travel plans at the very last minute means that people change their plans too. When we were due to leave on 20 September, we had arranged to have farewell drinks with friends the night before, a Friday, and had a fair number of people signed up for the occasion. However, due to certain visa issues (not enough time or space to go into them here, and this is also intended to be a profanity-free blog), we were forced to cancel our flights the night before, at around the same time we were scheduled to begin receiving free drinks from friends keen to give us a proper send off.
When the visa came through last Friday (or rather, when G. heard last Friday that his visa had been approved the week before), we hastily rebooked flights for this Sunday, and rescheduled farewell drinks for tonight. This gave people only one week's notice, and many of them already had, understandably, other plans in place for tonight. For this reason, we will have a total of seven confirmed attendees tonight, and another two "maybes", depending on when their first function finishes.
While this situation could be interpreted as us not having many friends, and people not being bothered to get out and see us one last time, I choose to believe that those not in attendance are too utterly devastated by our imminent departure that they prefer to sit alone in their darkened bedrooms, where better to drown their sorrows in a heady mix of alcoholic drinks. It is Halloween, after all.
Besides, as G keeps reminding me, it's the quality people - T&S, E&T, P&G and A - who are showing up tonight and one should always go for quality over quantity. Plus I have a cracker of a headache at the moment, and therefore probably won't be up for anything too exciting anyway.
The upshot is, of course, that we're going to miss the friends left behind, but with the internet being the way it is these days, and with exciting things like Skype and VOIP (not that I understand them, but I know what they are), keeping in touch is just so easy.
Much love
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2 comments:
yes it is all about the quality of the friends and the quantity of the drinks. :)
actually I am in denial that you are going anyway.
Even though I was there last night I'm still sitting in a darkened room, drowning my sorrows - with water (had enough booze last night, methinks! And besides, don't want to be thought of as a total alcoholic by drinking before midday!).
Miss you already.
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