The Rest of Saturday, June 5th.

The day ended up being pretty boring. I fetched smoothies, did laundry, played a lot of Pokemon. There were three highlights:

[o] The smallest thing was watching three more episode of True Blood, an HBO series about vampires in the south that BJ and Sammeh (mostly BJ) have introduced us to. It's very good, with fantastic characters and great writing.

[o] Next up: DRIVE-THRU PASTA. There's a chain here called Fazoli's that is basically just what I said: pasta in a drive-thru. Alfredo, lasagna, chicken parmigiana, ziti, etc etc. Anyone who knows me, and my pasta obsession, can only imagine my happiness when I learned of this place. Is it the best pasta in the world? No, but it's damned good for drive-thru. And the breadsticks! Yummmm....

[o] Last but never least: I finally got to talk to David for the first time since Ryan and I moved, and since David and Dorita's trip to Ireland. I learned that it wasn't the trip they had planned. Originally, they had signed up for a caravan--horses, wagons, the whole bit--across the country. Talk about awesome! But the first day, Dorita ended up being dragged by her foot by a horse, and destroyed most of the muscles and tendons in one foot. She's going to be fine, and she actually had the best foot and ankle doctor in all of Ireland operating on and treating her...and from what David told me, it was almost a better trip from then on.

Everyone they encountered was beyond courteous, beyond nice, beyond anything they were used to. The hospital, the U.S. Embassy, the taxi drivers, the visitors for other patients--everyone went out of their way to help them, whether it was giving David a place to stay, providing internet and phone numbers, pushing the wheelchair in the airport, everything. They were already changing their views and perceptions of the world, and this really motivated that even further.

It was a lot to absorb, and, while I got what he was telling me, it's hard to put it all down in writing. Plus it's not entirely my message to share; it's just part of what happened me today. However, knowing the two of them, I'm very glad for all the positives they are going through right now, even if it's influenced--recently and currently--by seemingly negative circumstances (guess what the key word is). I completely supportive and happy for them :)

And now, as it's almost 2 in the morning, I'm finally off to bed. I'll find something else to talk about tomorrow, I'm sure.