GOODBYE, WILLIAM!
Bahía de Caráquez, Ecuador, Monday, July 09, 2007
It’s good-bye William. After six weeks with us in Ecuador, son William, 15, heads back to New Orleans to Band Camp. William is a now a high-school sophomore an hour away from New Orleans in Picayune, Mississippi, where he lives with his mother and his older brother and sister, Andrew and Antonia respectively. Being the youngest kid in the family has some advantages: after everybody else has flown the nest, you get to spend time alone with your parents. Andrew, 20, is jobbing this summer in his college town, and Antonia, 17, having just completed high school, is on an extended tour back to Europe before starting college in September.
The photograph of William may come as a surprise to some of his friends who perhaps knew him when he was younger. He is 15 now and bigger than his parents! Also, now that he can wrestle Dad to a standstill, Dad claims he is now too old for that sort of thing. And, warning: Don’t take William on in cards or Scrabble. Deadly!
The original plan for the summer was to sail with William to The Galapagos Islands, a week away from Bahía de Caraquéz (which is on the Ecuadorian mainland). Unfortunately, the repairs on the mast have taken up all the time William had available for visiting with us. We tried to make up for it by spending a week up in Cuenca in the Central Sierras.
Life as always in Bahía was quiet. Dad was busy with boat things (as usual), Kathleen was proofreading (as usual) and William spent lots of time at the cyber café chatting with his friends around the world and loading up his i-Pod with music.
On the way back from Cuenca, we saw William off at Guayaquil airport. He should be home and attending Band Camp by now.
Bahía de Caráquez, Ecuador, Monday, July 09, 2007
It’s good-bye William. After six weeks with us in Ecuador, son William, 15, heads back to New Orleans to Band Camp. William is a now a high-school sophomore an hour away from New Orleans in Picayune, Mississippi, where he lives with his mother and his older brother and sister, Andrew and Antonia respectively. Being the youngest kid in the family has some advantages: after everybody else has flown the nest, you get to spend time alone with your parents. Andrew, 20, is jobbing this summer in his college town, and Antonia, 17, having just completed high school, is on an extended tour back to Europe before starting college in September.
The photograph of William may come as a surprise to some of his friends who perhaps knew him when he was younger. He is 15 now and bigger than his parents! Also, now that he can wrestle Dad to a standstill, Dad claims he is now too old for that sort of thing. And, warning: Don’t take William on in cards or Scrabble. Deadly!
The original plan for the summer was to sail with William to The Galapagos Islands, a week away from Bahía de Caraquéz (which is on the Ecuadorian mainland). Unfortunately, the repairs on the mast have taken up all the time William had available for visiting with us. We tried to make up for it by spending a week up in Cuenca in the Central Sierras.
Life as always in Bahía was quiet. Dad was busy with boat things (as usual), Kathleen was proofreading (as usual) and William spent lots of time at the cyber café chatting with his friends around the world and loading up his i-Pod with music.
On the way back from Cuenca, we saw William off at Guayaquil airport. He should be home and attending Band Camp by now.
posted by rjb @ Monday, July 09, 2007
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