Familiar Sounds

We spent a little time by the pool today and heard much Québecois French spoken. There are more people congregating around the pool than we've experienced in previous visits. We have the impression this place has been discovered by Quebeckers. It was very pleasant to chat with the ones near us except for one lady who suddenly became territorial when I asked an attendant to move a large shade umbrella so Carol and I could benefit from its shade. There were two of these umbrellas standing in front of the chairs casting their shade uselessly upon the pool. When he moved one to give us shade the lady got very annoyed and verbal, claiming this umbrella was also supposed to give her shade. We pointed out that there was an additional umbrella directly in front of her chair, it was all her own to use, and the attendant was willing to move it also, like ours, to provide her shade. This he did in fact, and the flap subsided.

Lady, let's not get carried away here!

In other news, I see the Colima volcano made it onto Yahoo News following a picturesque explosion on Wednesday, Jan. 21st. I cannot know for sure if there's any connection between this event and the fact it was my younger son's birthday, but I insert a short, time-lapse video of the event. I regret to note this volcano has been keeping its theatrics until after we are gone. Rats. Volcanoes ought to come with a schedule.

The link to the story is here ...

http://news.yahoo.com/huge-volcanic-explosion-in-mexico-captured-in-stunning-time-lapse-171336409.html

Perhaps you can tell I retain a fondness for this geographical phenomenon.

This evening we attended our meeting. Just before we left I discovered my iPad, that was supposed to be recharging, was in fact not. The plug was not in the socket perfectly and the battery was down to 8%. This obliged me to follow the meeting with a paper Bible (not so bad) and my iPhone (kinda pokey).