Hurricane Gordon

I got an email from my cousin, Tania who is back in Lisbon Apparently there was a hurricane alert for the Azores that I was unaware about Hurricane Gordon was on it's way in the Atlantic, and they predicted that it would eventually hit the Azores last weekend. Everyone took it very seriously, and was expecting the worse. People were actually boarding up their homes, and trying to head to higher ground and away from the ocean, which is a pretty difficult thing do especially if you live on an island! Schools and businesses all closed down, and things were quite tense.

 

I'm glad I didn't know about this beforehand, because I would have been VERY worried. I know I've mentioned this before in my journal, but the Azores are very small islands. If you are near a globe, they are the little specs you find in the mid-Atlantic, right across from Portugal, above the Cape Verde Islands, and almost directly across the United States, east coast.  Here is a map, just in case you can't find a globe;

 

  <---See what I mean?!  The Azores are tiny!!!

 

Luckily, the hurricane passed by with only a "flash" of rain. I just got a call from my other cousin, "Coelho ( Jose Carlos-the fireman--sugar daddy candy lover-remember him?) who told me that it was only a "Flash Gordon" of a hurricane. This is good--I have way too many relatives out there, and I'm glad that everyone is nice and safe. I hadn't heard from my Sugar Daddy candy loving cousin in awhile, and it is always nice to hear from him. He went to France, Switzerland, Holland..etc. "Damn, Coelho you have been everywhere!" He responds, "But youlive in California,the most beautiful state in the U.S.!" "Yeah, but I'm getting sick of it here! I want to see the world!!" Oh well.. Living in Europe you are close to everything.  I live near Hawaii at least--gotta go back there one day!! ;

 

Tania gave me some other family news--one of my cousins just got engaged!  I hope I will be able to attend the wedding---if he gets married next summer--hopefully I'll be there! 

 

Yesterday evening, I got the tag below from D's Designs... Isn't it beautiful?!  I love it!!!!