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Sunday 1 April 2012

Storytelling Sundays Yr2 - A CHANGE OF PLAN

Firstly let me say how grateful I am to RINDA, whose post on Friday gave me the inspiration for today's story....AND to get a Layout I'd been meaning to do for YONKS done!


You may remember way back last year, I shared my travels through the SW of the USA, ending with THIS POST, in which I intended to be back to share why our plans changed..and where we ended up. Eight months later (give or take), Rinda has unwittingly reminded me to do just that!


In that last post, we had spent a few days in Colorado Springs with the intention of driving south  to Austin TX, to visit with another friend and colleague of DH's. Whilst there though, DH stumbled upon an article about the 'jazz fusion' group RETURN TO FOREVER. They had reformed for the first time to tour...unfortunately nowhere near where we were, but they WERE playing in NYC the following week. 


Although I like some of their music, I am/never was a great fan....but DH is..there was no way I could deny him this (and I DO have to confess that the thought of a week in NY was no hardship for me either!) . 


As I mentioned before, we didn't do much planning ahead on this trip, and hadn't yet booked a hotel in Austin...as our plan had been to drive,  there was no air travel to cancel, nor had we made any firm arrangements for when we were actually IN  Austin...there was no reason we couldn't change our mind about where we were going next! Admittedly, we weren't going to drive to NY and we DID have to change our return flights out of JFK instead of Austin, but after sorting that out we just dropped the car at Denver Airport before flying East. I managed to find us an apt in the Upper West Side, which was really handy for walking everywhere and the weather was glorious. Our previous experience of NY had been in the Winter ( and I had had a broken toe, thus there hadn't been an awful lot of walking!), so it was a totally different experience for us!


Theconcert itself was pretty good OK, but DH did make it up to me...more about that in another post, which I promise shan't be eight months away!


As this was my chosen story, I was inspired to get a LO ( for which the photographs have been printed for about two years!) completed.


I used Shimelle's STARTING POINT for this LO

Why don't you pop on over HERE, where you will find a plethora of tales from Bloggers all over the globe, who come together on the first Sunday of every month for STORYTELLING SUNDAY, hosted by the lovely Sian.

Thanks for dropping by!
Take care of you
Alison x













33 comments:

  1. Always worthwhile making a detour to NYC!

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  2. What a great story! I saw chick correa once, and he was very good. I admire your willingness to change plans. I love NYC.
    Rinda (who must admit that Carrie deserves some credit, too!)

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  3. Great LO with all the ephemera

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  4. This is a 'two for one' post - a great story and a great layout! Lovely.

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  5. Great to be so flexible.....and love the page.

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  6. Lovely memory and LO Alison, love all the bits! sorry, ephemera :)

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  7. Great to hear why you changed your plans - wow a week in NYC - its top of my places to visit!

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  8. I love all the bits too - that's my kind of scrapping, when you can get your bits on a page :) and a great story of flexibily and compromise. That's love for you!

    Thanks for the story today Alison. I'm glad you eventually got this one told

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  9. I love your layout. It tells a great story. One day I want to go on a holiday that doesn't have a definite itinerary. We usually try to cram so much into such a short time that almost every second is planned. When I have a little more time on my hand I have plans for a 'less planned' trip :-)

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  10. i love all the memorabilia on this LO, cool idea. NYC is such a wonderful place,
    jo xxx

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  11. Oh you are good to have kept the tickets....great layout and the little details are lovely x

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  12. what fun! I always like surprises like that - being open to such things can lead to some neat adventures.

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  13. That's what travelling should be like - relaxed and subject to change at the drop of a hat. I might just have my tale for next Story Telling Sunday.....

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  14. A lovely story and your layout is gorgeous x

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  15. A great story and I love your layout! Looking forward to hearing how DH made it up to you lol!

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  16. great story, LOVE your LO - so fabulous!!!

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  17. Sounds like a great trip!

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  18. I really like the fact your layout contains the tickets :)

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  19. A great story and I love the layout too - nice to have the memories saved :D

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  20. How cool Alison, to have a sudden spontaneous change of plans and for a music concet too! Great layout with all the ephemera...

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  21. Flexibility can create great memories and I am sure DH won't ever forget your willingness to change plans :)

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  22. I wish I could be that flexible with travel! I live with people who need the entire itinerary planned out and every moment accounted for!

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  23. Lovely story and LO! I love, love,love the little scrap of music paper in there, right in the middle:)

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  24. Great story glad you got to go back to NYC when you could walk around and see the sites x

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  25. How fab that you could just change your plans on a whim! Love the LO to go with it :)

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  26. great story and layout, wish I could be a bit more spontaneous!

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  27. Oh how wonderful to be masters of your own destiny like that! I bet it seems like a lifetime ago!

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  28. a week in the big apple sounds fantastic, well done on making your LO it turned out brilliantly

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  29. That's a great story and a lovely thing you did for him! I love how you've added the tickets to your LO too - real hard evidence for future generations!

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  30. I love this story about the spontaneity of your NY trip! And the layout to go with it is awesome!!!

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  31. That was definitely a change of plans, and it sounds like it worked out well. Great layout-I like all the memorabilia you included.

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  32. Sorry I'm so tardy getting around this time, glad I didn't miss your story or your layout.

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  33. How wonderful to be able to divert your holiday like that - I'm sure DH really enjoyed and appreciated it!

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