A World Apart

Tours Ala Ana

Ana
I have had a rough day one of the guys on the tour wouldn't take no thank you for an answer even I told him I was not included in the tour. I had to explain it further to a hard knee to his groin area. His wife looked on in horror, after I explained what he tried to do to my 15 year old self she finished the job and dragged him off the tour bus. I get flirted with and just ignore it, since they are all on vacation and long term plans wouldn't be happening. Today we have more family type tours around Paris. I am headed to England to fill in for a tour guide who is going to Italy for her honeymoon.
Grace
I am so ready for this trip to Paris and England. We have scheduled tours for both places and possibly Greece and Italy if we have time. We have Elliott who is just about 18, Christian 15 and Mia just 10 years old. We have decided to hire someone to be a sitter when we had a romantic dinner out by ourselves. Of course the boys hated that idea. Mia and Christian know French, but not fluently. Elliott knows Spanish fluently. So we are taking a tour that has a translator aboard.
Carrick
I love the idea of being in Paris again with Grace. I am so glad we hired someone to oversee the kids. The boys initially hated the idea until they saw her. I do believe they are trying to impress her. I am glad she is married and just took the job to help buy a house. At first we were concerned that she was too close in age to the boys. Her husband joined her on the trip and they work as a babysitter together. He's a big guy he is healing from injuries so he joined us. He is like twice the boys size, so they pretty much do as he tells them. Ruth and Sam Granger like traveling so when this job came up Ruth was the perfect fit along with her football player husband. We couldn't believe our luck.
Ruth
Man this is so great we are being paid to travel and care for three children which so far only one has given us real problems. Christian tries to act all hostile, but I see through a lot of that. He is a scared kid. He was severely abused before he was adopted by the Greys. The Greys said if this trip goes well we might have a full time gig for us when we get back to Seattle. Sam thinks he might not be able to play football again.
Sam
The injury I have might not heal enough to play football ever again. They are waiting for it to heal. I am working out with the teen boys and showing them how to build up muscles and take their anger out in different ways. Christian like to punch the dummy and the punching bag. It seems to calm his anger. He has touch issues which I recommended he face his fears on that if he really wanted to have anything to do with females. Because women like to touch and be touched by their mates. Elliott and I are helping him work on that and Mia and Ruth are helping him with it. He wants to surprise his mother when Christmas comes around and gives her and his whole family a big hug each. I tell him we will not touch him unless it is something we have scheduled ahead of time.
Elliott
I am shocked that Christian agreed to the plan of getting him past his touch issues. Mia is down here with Ruth working out as well. I suspect she didn't want to be left out. Sam is also showing us some self defense routines. Especially for Mia, he says everyone needs to be able to defend against any attacks. We have a tour scheduled for our last day in Paris. So we have to get showered, eat breakfast and head out.
Ana
Dad has been going on maneuvers off and on and I have to check in with his girlfriend whom I can't stand. She is all about getting to the United States. She is constantly trying to get dad to retire from his cushy European assignments to marry her and take us back to the states. She wants to live in New York. That won't happen. We have a home in Montesano and Seattle. Jeanie Louis thinks she can get her way on this she is so wrong. I have everything ready for my last tour before I head to England, then I head to Greece and then finally Italy and start all over again. I guess we have hit world wide fame for our amazing tours and the fact some of us are multi lingual helps.
Sam
We head out and Ruth gets everything we need for the family for the day on the tour bus.
Ruth
I gather everything for the day on the tour. Mia, Christian and Elliott stay close to us and their parents. We arrive at the bus and there is a petite brunette who couldn't be over 12 from her size from the back. When she turns around to bark another order at the driver she is definitely not 12. But she isn't very old. Her French is amazing, you can tell she's bossing the driver around. She notices us and welcomes us in French and English. I watch as both Elliott and Christian seem to be google eyed at this beautiful young girl. We finally make our way to our seats.
Elliott
Wow a teenager is running the tour how amazing is that I tell Christian.
Christian
I am standing looking at the beautiful girl speaking fluent French and I understand every word. She is bossing the driver around and he doing everything she's asking of him. Elliots talking to me, but I am just enamored with this girl. We go sit down and she's not one time looked up at us. Her clipboard is more interesting. Suddenly she looks at us and is frozen our eyes meet and we both can't look away. Her bright blue eyes have me mesmerized. She finally blushes and looks to her driver who had been pulling on her sleeve to get her back into gear.
Sam
Okay let's get fully seated shall we Christian? She is definitely a beautiful young girl. ButI believe the tour can't start until we are seated.
Ana
I tell everyone to sit down once the driver wakes me from my daze at looking at the God I have just locked eyes with. He doesn't live here Ana so stop and besides you are too young for a serious anything.
Christian
I sit down and the driver starts moving and we all are taking pictures most of mine include the beautiful Ana, she gave us her name as she started the full tour announcements. I am reminded that I will never see her again. I asked if she would take photos with me and then my whole family. She agreed to take some photos with us. I have photos of her at each of the places we stopped. France was great. I tried to get her information, but the company has strict guidelines and their employees have to abide by them or lose their jobs. They can't become involved with the customers before or after the tours.