so at my birthday dinner my mother and i were discussing Switzerland… actually she said something to the effect that she had never been to Switzerland.. but i know she had…. i clearly remember being at a restaurant in Zurich and the bathroom had the first automatic water dispenser i had ever seen… I was young but I clearly remember… and I even remember when I was older coming back from boarding school with Kathy Young with Robert Rigsby…. and a few other returning students… we had a layover in Zurich and there was even a possibility that we might have to stay over due to snow…. in fact i was pretty excited abut the prospect to use my gold american express card for this “emergency” HA! but to my dismay … the flight wasn’t delayed over night.. and we didn’t get to go skiing….oh well next lifetime….
and when i was in school in France my dad had written me a letter to stay and go skiing with him in Switzerland.. now i cant really ski. well ….. i only learned for a bit in boarding school and never really picked up a liking for it… but the point is that if our whole family had been to Switzerland… and there only so many ways to go back and forth to and from Saudi before they had direct flights from Dhahran…. so i’m sure pan am or klm or one of those airlines must have gone through Switzerland….
after speaking to my mom over the phone and her requesting a picture to prove that she had been to Switzerland… ( which doesn’t sound like my mom i started thinking .. wait a minute… i started thinking of a conversation we had in the kitchen in the beach front condo when i had just come back from france…. and i had just called a friend from mexico… trying to make plans for when i was going back to Europe… the conversation was about money.. and about my dad having a bank account in Switzerland……. jump back t today.. and all the hell I have been through… it was like some very long drawn out identity theft …. but worse…. could all of this hell be over a damm bank account?
plus my sister Maura learned to ski on the Aramco ski trip in Switzerland.. when she was young.. probably like 11 or 12…