so i lay here in bed for the 3rd and a half day. i'm bored, i'm grumpy, and i'm in pain.
this also means that i will not be teaching my very last gospel doctrine lesson on sunday. you'd think i'd be relieved, and i guess i'm as surprised as anyone that i'm not. i feel like going out this way is anti-climactic, i guess. on the other hand, the last lesson i taught was pretty killer, so teaching one more time might be anti-climactic in and of itself!
onto happier news..time for a much belated beach recap!
normally by this time of year, i have spent a significant amount of time at the beach. for various reasons, i had not yet been, and lara was gracious enough to help me remedy the situation.
she invited me along with her long time friends kathryn and valerie--both of whom i have met recently in the course of the wedding activities, and i just couldn't pass it up. kathryn and valerie are pretty awesome chicks...and a weekend at the beach? who says no to that:)
so the four of us met in tyson's and loaded up lara's car. we hit typical beach traffic and made it to our hotel around 9, at which point, we got ready and headed to the rudder, a bar/club on the beach in dewey. the band was okay, the company was good.
after we closed the place down, we headed to grotto's pizza for a 'snack' before bed.
saturday morning, we got up and found that the day was a bit gray and drizzly. enough to prevent us from heading down to the beach. so we decided on option 2...the outlet mall! some great items were purchased, lunch was had, and the weather cleared.
we stopped back at the hotel, and then lara, kathryn, and i headed to the beach. valerie wasn't feeling well, so she stayed back at the hotel to get some rest.
it ended up being an absolutely stunning day! the temperature was perfect, the beach wasn't crowded, and the water was warm enough to swim in. swimming though, became a challenge very quickly. we happened to be there during high tide, and kathryn and i got pummeled a bit before we decided we'd had enough. as we left the water, the lifeguard commented that we were 'brave', for battling the waves and strong current.
we dried off and headed back to the hotel, at which point, we started getting ready for dinner.
on our way out, we stopped at cvs to get some drugs for valerie. when we got out of the car, we heard a cat crying loudly. lara was afraid she had hit it, but the rest of us were convinced it was in the bushes.
after the drug store, we headed to dinner, parked our car, and walked the couple of blocks to the restaurant.
after finishing dinner, we headed towards the rudder (where we had parked our car). there were a couple of people hovering at the car, and when we approached, they asked if the car was ours. we said that it was, and they told us we had a cat in the car. yes, that's right. a cat--the cat from cvs, which probably originally came from the hotel--had climbed in to the engine.
it was crying loudly again, and various people stopped to see what was going on. a police officer came to help, and before long we had a crowd. eventually, they (the cop and random guy) were able to locate the cat, and just as the random guy almost had it in his hands, the cat took off and crawled into another car.
this happened a couple more times, and the crowd dissipated. i could tell that the cop had no idea what to do. he looked at valerie and i and said 'i like animals, but clearly not as much as YOU like animals.' i didn't have any sort of solution. the cat, based on it's ability to run from car to car, was okay, but i was concerned that it was only a matter of time before it wound up in a place it couldn't get out of. at a certain point though, there was just nothing more we could do, so valerie and i headed in to the club to rejoin kathryn and lara.
the band was better, the company still good. again we shut the place down.
when we headed back to the parking lot, we could hear that cat again. it sounded like it might be back in our car. but then it sounded like it was in the car behind us. two guys and a girl had just gotten in the vehicle, so we told them they might be harboring a cat fugitive. they got out of the car and we all realized it was in the car next door. the girl, while professing her love of cats, somehow managed to reach far enough inside the wheel well to grab the cat before it escaped. she immediately adopted the small kitten and took it home with her. a perfect and happy ending!
sunday morning, we packed up and made the relatively traffic-free drive home.
all in all, it was a great weekend! good thing, too, since i don't know how much of the outside world i will be seeing THIS weekend;)
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