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Travel: on the road with Hailey

By Linda Waggener

I it love when my granddaughter Hailey FaceTime's and connects with two grandmothers and her Aunt Judy all at the same time. She tells us news from her ten-years-old perspective - Barbies, Roblox, shopping - then she listens patiently while we share our never-mind-how-many-years-old perspectives.

This day the visit was a fast paced one, not much time to talk. Hailey was buzzing across Colorado with her Mom, Dad and big brother Graham (big brother Evan is working in Canada).

Nana Kay answered from her home in eastern Kentucky (way north of the flood zone, thankfully), Aunt Judy answered while she was getting ready to head home across east Louisville, and I'm in south central Kentucky.



There were four windows on the smartphone screen - each of us in our own little movie set from our different locations. Aunt Judy had to go first so she could drive and we all said goodbye. The three of us left on the call quietened as each of us pondered the red window where she'd just said goodbye - instead of her little movie on the phone screen having closed, leaving three of us to visit, her square stayed open after we could no longer see her.

Focusing on the Aunt Judy movie, still going, we slowly realized we'd been dropped into her open red purse. Nice red lining, leather tag, hefty zipper, and over the top a bit of window looking out on Louisville's gray sky.

Nana, Hailey and I started laughing. We talked louder so she could hear us and hang up. Traffic must have been loud around her for Judy never heard us and the three of us - Colorado, Eastern and Southern Kentucky - laughed on from inside her purse for miles.

After seeing a couple of views of Denver, Hailey announced it was lunchtime and she'd call back.

PS: Hailey said her favorite meal so far had been a Boba drink in a souvenir lightbulb bottle that actually lights up in the dark.


This story was posted on 2022-08-07 08:59:51
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