Anniversary Trip

We left Wednesday nite after prayer meeting. We wanted to be there because we were deciding whether to begin having a light fellowship pot luck meal before prayer meeting. We wanted to express our approval of that idea.

I hadn't slept much Tuesday nite, so I took a pillow, expecting to become sleepy on the way down. I made it about 2 hours into the trip, but rather than reach back and get my pillow I leaned my head back and practiced *do it yourself whip lash* the remaining 30-45 minutes of the trip. Ya know, where you drop off to sleep and your head tries to roll off the seat back so you jerk it upright only to repeat the movement in the opposite direction in 5 minutes. When you are jerking from side to side, you're slinging it into an upright position.
We got to mothers and I walked in, shucked my blouse and capris and fell into bed and slept until 7 this next morning.

The rest of the time on the coast was spent trying to out wit the hot flashes, the heat of the weather and wondering why some people have to have their AC set for freezer burn.

Mother looks good, although I noticed a subdued tone and look about her. She's always been such a bossy, get it done, opinionated woman. Being thrown flat of her back with no assurance that this situation will change seems to have defeated her to some degree. It was sad for me to see this.

We shopped all evening but didn't buy much; just looked and browsed and enjoyed being away. We ate supper at the Beau Rivage and I ate my fair share of snow crab legs and fried shrimp.

Today we got up, visited with Judy and Robert, then came as far as Hattisburg where we met Brenda for lunch. She was on her way to spend her weekend on the coast with mother. We visited with our nursery friends, ran by the hospital to see another nursery friend who had hip replacement surgery yesterday, then headed home.

We hadn't been home but an hour tops when Brenda called. She had been involved in a 4 car wreck. In fact there were about 3 or 4 wrecks all due to the same idiot, but each set of vehicles was separated out into specific incidents. Seems some fool decided to stop in the middle of their lane on the interstate due to heavy rain. The car ahead of Brenda had to slam on brakes and skidded into the stopped car, Brenda did the same as did the car behind her. This repeated itself a few more times for the several wrecks.
Brenda had nothing broken, but it probably totaled her car out.