mariamusic

I was nervous this morning since I did not know what to expect, a series of Critical comments, or a nice meeting with my brother and my cousin. My cousin is here in USA on vacation from Iran, and my brother has brought him down to town to see the San Diego, they wanted to visit me and my mother as well. To my surprise, I actually enjoyed my time with them.

I had not seen my cousin for three years, and I had not seen my brother for six months or more. We went to a Persian deli for lunch and my mom had a ground beef kabob with rice for lunch,



and I had bread and cheese

but with cucumber and tomato.

My brother had taken my cousin for an American breakfast, so they arrived when we were done with our lunch. It was marvelous to see them. I was so happy to see me cousin that I told him he brought the home with himself. I had tons of gifts from Iran. We sat down and had a drink together. No alcohol of course, my mom and cousin had Cokes while my brother and I drank water. It was nice when my cousin talked about his childhood memories with my mom (I probably was not even born then), and it was nice to see how he chuckled when my mom talked. He said my mother had not changed too much to not be recognized. He had not seen my mom for more than fifteen years. Life has it ways does not it?

We then drove back with my brothers newly, cool and modernized black BMW, and I enjoyed watching the roads and not being the driver. We took my mom back to her place, and then we went to San Diego’s harbor, and the Balboa Park. While driving, I asked my cousin that if people still drive crazy in Tehran? He said that sure they do. He said if he, as a driver, wanted to follow the rules, he would have accidents. I chuckled. Then my brother told this story; he said that he gave his car to our cousin to drive as changing drivers and my cousin miss stop signs. I thought was very funny, and my cousin responded, “well how I should have known? I even did not see the signs.”



The Harbor view

We walked a little at the harbor, but they did not have enough time to get out of the car in order to walk in the Balboa Park. Tomorrow they most probably are going to the SD Zoo. They asked if I wanted to go with them to which I said yes. I was glad that I met them, and I was feeling less “cloudy and grey” when I came back home. They are going to New York next week, and I so much wanted to go along. I might buy a ticket and go on a vacation to some new city I thought.