“Yes, the other girls are going to be able to make it.  Didn’t you get their emails? Oh, having problems? Anyway Dana said she was going to be here the following Monday anyway, so she said all she had to do was ask her sponsor to rebook her ticket, so that she could fly up on Tuesday or Wednesday before Thanksgiving.  Alice said to thank you and Tina very much for the first-class ticket: first time she gets to travel in style, she said, and added that it was just the thing for a crazy holiday travel period like Thanksgiving.  Carmen has a family reunion so she won’t be able to make it; Helena will be arriving the day itself, because we’re having a big event in “Hit” the night before.  But she’ll likely be here — she may have to split time between our thing and an event her mom is having later that night, though.”

“Okay, I’ll go check with Jacques and see how he is, then feel my way towards extending him an invitation.  I’ll tell you tomorrow how that goes when you call.  Ok, love you, too.  Please give Tina our love.  And tell her also not to worry about anything over here.”

She clicked the call shut, and turned to Shane.  “Did you catch any of that?,” Kit asked.  Shane was kicking a soccer ball-style stuffed toy back-and-forth with Angie, with Angie mostly falling on it, then trying to kick it, and Shane retrieving it.

“Uh, huh, I did.  So she wants us to go check on how he’s doing?,” Shane asked, as she softly kicked the ball back to Angie.

“I think so,” Kit answered, hesitatingly.

“Well, I’m sorry to bail out on you Kit, if you plan to do it later today or tonight.  I have that gig in the Village, and I’ll have to leave in about half an hour in order to get there in time,” Shane responded, regretfully.

Kit shook her head, “Oh, don’t worry about it, Shane.  I’d forgotten about your thing today. Yes, of course, you’re lucky you got that gig.”

“Yeah, luckily Tina was talking to the studio that day, huh?  When they left Kabul and got to Dubai, just when the hairstylist of that event quit?  It was really nice of her to push them to get me for it,” Shane said.  “Who knows?  May lead to other things both here and in LA.”