Ruby Wednesday

In six days time, next Wednesday, my parents will celebrate their Ruby Wedding Anniversary. It absolutely blows my mind that such a thing is happening. Not because they have a horrible marriage and it's a miracle they stayed together. Quite the opposite. My mind is more blown by the fact I'm old enough for their to be such a landmark in my parents lives. Wait that sounds selfish.

Anyway, as they retired and moved to Spain in 1995, I am flying out on Sunday to spend 5 days with them to mark the occasion. Five days of hanging out with the parents in 95 degrees sunny sunshine, lounging around their pool drinking cocktails. I canNOT wait. For their gift, I got them a red iPod Nano. See, they're often making long car journeys and love to listen audiobooks when they're on said journeys (at least once a year, they drive over to the UK which takes several days). So I got the iPod and an in car adaptor for them so they no longer have to juggle a bazillion CDs in the car, they can just load up as much music and books as they want and away they go. I got it engraved and I set it up last night, naming it Ruby and loading a compilation album of songs from 1969 on there for them.

My flight is on Sunday at the ungodly hour of 6:25am. Gross. I have an insane plan on how to get to the airport on time for that. Once it's all done and I'm back in dear old Blighty, I'll update fully with pictures and a proper explanation of the plan (if it works. If it's a disaster, I'll pretend it never happened).