Mom and I have finally arrived back home from Tennessee. Friends of ours are watching 8 of our dogs (plus their 3) for the next 2 weeks while we are in Israel. Man I feel for them, 11 dogs all running around, needing fed and to be outside. I thought 9 was a handful... It was nice though to see them and we were able to spend the night. It's an 8 hour drive one way so 16 hours is killer. (yeah we did that last time)
On the way up there for like the last hour, my mom and I played the "Worst-Case Scenario" game. It was hilarious. My mom can be such a hoot when she wants to be. Granted, when she gets mad you better take cover, but the rest of the time shes a lot of fun. On the way down there we were playing and one of the questions was related to a camel. Something about what you should do on a run-away camel. So we got talking about that and how mean they can be. Then she was like, "Oh and they can bellow like you wouldn't believe! Bouwwww!!" It was so funny I laughed for almost 5 minutes. (maybe you had to be there to understand the humour) I kept laughing so my face was tuning blue and I couldn't breathe. So then shes sitting there, "Leah, breathe! What's so funny? For heaven's sake, you're turning blue! Take a breath!!" About the time I would start to calm down I would hear that in my head and start laughing all over again. Then, my mom thought it was so funny that she started laughing. So there we are in the car, pouring down rain, and we're laughing our heads off like a couple of drunk women. Oh it was hilarious. Well then, we managed to get ourselves calmed down and mom told me to be looking for a certain exit which should be coming up. We didn't see it so we kept driving and driving. I told her I thought we missed and should turn around to the last point we both recognized. She was sure that it was ahead somewhere and was going to keep driving. Finally, when we got 10mins into West Virginia she determined that we had in fact missed our exit...almost an hour behind us. It turnded out we had missed it in the rain while we were laughing.
On our way back this morning I slept most of the way. Mom got me up at 5:30 to take care of the dogs. That is usually the time she wakes up so they are all ready to go outside and be fed at that hour. I was lucky just to be able to walk down the hall. We took care of all them, had some breakfast a little after 6, and left to head home at 7:30. Our one little dog, Liesl, is joined to mom's hip and she looked crushed as we pulled out of the driveway. Mom felt so bad to be leaving her. The rest of the dogs didn't care too much and just went racing around the yard.
So on the way back we also played the game, mainly to keep mom awake. They had so many rediculous questions of scenarios when you are "in the wilderness". They say like rub medicated pads on this or drink this kind of sap, or signal for a helicopter. It was so stupid so you would have to carry so much crap in your backpack for all these different things. We got a kick out of that saying all that we needed, some of things including an axe, a generator for the electrical cord, a helicopter, a bunion pad, and all sorts of random things. It was weird but funny. This is what happens when we get around 5 hours of sleep and are stuck in a car for 8 hours...
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