Tour Diary 16

Tour Diary 16.  16.4.11 – Curtains in the loo, I kid you not!

I so passionately love the quirkiness of the American people but today’s adventure bought me to see one of it’s most strange aspects.

Steve and I were on our way to his Fayetteville talk to a doubly combined Mufon talk at the library.  We thought we would go for a brunch meal before the talk and intuitively found a wonderful little or organic place, which is obviously so good… and we would have to say that it was… because there was  the Dalai Lama  on a poster on the door.  Steve read it properly though and it said that he was actually going to talk at the Library not just go in for a meal at this lovely place.

Anyway as always, I check out the loos… (it could be a proper new career move for me I am such an expert on loos in all nationalities!!) ... to my total delight I entered a fairly biggish room with the sink and drier on my left but straight ahead was a pair of full length curtains screening the toilet.  I stood dumbfounded for a bit and then pulled them aside and went into the toilet space and believe or not, without thinking... I pulled them to!!!

Why?   I was the only person in there, who was I hiding from?  When Steve pointed out how incongruous it was, - not that there was a pair of curtains in there, - but the fact that I actually pulled them shut we couldn’t stop laughing..

I know I am going to keep saying this.. but only in America…

The talk went well, the library was beautiful and had a great energy and the organizer Norm was so enthusiastic and kind and took us out with about a dozen other Mufon people after the talk for a meal.  Steve spoke for over 2 ½ hours and managed to change the presentation as many of these people were at the Ozark presentation and so he didn't want to repeat his information.  The talk of all these people is still very much about how there was a standing ovation for Steve at the Ozark conference… as so many people had been to the conference for years and had never seen that before.  I have made a few new friends/researchers and as always I am so amazed at how friendly – kind and supportive people are being.  I’m also so amazed at how willing they are to come up to Steve, potentially a complete stranger, and confide in him their own abduction stories, which they have never shared with anyone else.  I did a few mini clips of filming him but I had no sense at all of any energies on the stage with him.  Steve repeated the story of the ‘ET’ lady coming up to his desk and one of the new friends we made yesterday described her and said he was watching Steve’s table from a distance and saw her there.  When Steve spoke about the DNA part of his presentation a couple of people told Steve that they were suddenly aware of two people appearing in the front row, who were not there the minute before.  As soon as he stopped talking about the DNA they realized that they were no longer there. 

On a note of the 'strange energies' which take things and hide them from us..., they have stepped up a notch as twice now we have gone back to our locked car to find our windows wound down to half way.  Each time we have had expensive things in the car so we are very alarmed.  I have now been given the job of going round the car when we are leaving it and tapping on each one of the windows to make sure they are up and locked.  As if I need to add any more to my repertoire of 'Zany English Lady Abroad' than to have people witness me doing a window-knocking ceremony.  

I think I should be able to wave some kind of rattle at the same time, or at least wear a feathered headdress but Steve refuses to comply with this request.

Tomorrow we begin our long trek to Texas and to mark such an auspicious trip we are going to stop in … Paris…

This is to co-incide with the fact that the receptionist at this hotel last night welcomed us and said how lovely it was for us to have come all the way from France to stay here at his Hotel.  Steve told him very politely that we were from England but realized very quickly that the receptionist believed that the two countries were one and the same.  Steve left it at that.

So Paris Texas tomorrow, we are managing to include all sorts of film references in this trip….

Lots of love

Annie

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