When a Wild Adventure Turns Safari

(this was written on the way home from my g'bb boyz.....hence some of the time reference)

As many of you know, I seem to have some magnetic quality connected to my being that draws wild adventure. My impression is that most of you actually would not be surprised to see some of these stories on a cable show.(this photo is the sight my bleary eyes beheld as we entered the hospital on Sunday...true love...)

Can I just start by saying that in the past 24 hours I have been the recipient of the "Nanny gets to snuggle" bb's prize, so all in all things are bloody brilliant.

Now,to give a little more detail and put the minds at ease that have been hanging by their fingertips on the rock face known as "Rebe's FB status teaser".... here is my story...are you wearing depends? You may need them, or at least take a little trip to the loo before you proceed with the reading....

So, Monday morning my mumma arrived at Julia's place bright and early, we snuggled the beautiful little samples of our DNA one last time and headed out to the Greater Vancouver Transit System.... are getting where this is going?

We chose to leave extra early because both of us would rather arrive early anywhere and wait as opposed to running in frantic and late. I needed to be on the 12:45 p.m. Twassen to Duke Point Ferry, in order to be home for 4:30 p.m. yeah so nice try on that! All was looking well until we had our FORTY minute layover in cold-nowhere-ville-transit-region. OH MY GOODNESS! we were so cold and there was not a shelter to be found...okay so there was one, but a particularly inconsiderate teenage male was smoking in it.... GROSS! ( this picture is sample of the miserable weather that day, brrrr!)

We chose the cold, we were laughing our little butt's off, since that is what our DNA line does in the face of adversity. Finally the bus showed up.

We got on and felt as though we had arrived in heaven. Aaaaaaaah, it was warm and the seats were very cushy. Nice!

It was a fairly long ride, when we finally arrived at the exchange area where we would catch the last bus that would take us out to the Tsawwassen Terminal, we were feeling pretty good. Much to my chagrin, mumma asked the bus driver one more time to confirm that this was the bus to Tsawwassen Ferry.... "uh, no actually, it isn't. You should have got on the bus with the same number with the same name going in the opposite direction. " WHAT!!!!! It is nearly 12 o'clock, I NEEEEEED to be on the 12:45 ferry!

We got off the bus, I not only was slightly stressed about the time, I had to use the LOO! Mumma called the transit or somebody while I went into the last leg station of skytrain to look for a biffy. Yeah, NOT! there wasn't one. Arrrrrg.

We decided a cab was our best option. We saw this really cute little bag-lady type person and asked her where we were. (are you scratching your head yet....was the description not enough to make you laugh?!) She starts telling some glorious tale about the war years and coal heat.... blah blah blah... I interrupt and ask her,"If we were going to call a cab, where would we tell them to pick us up?" Yes I did ask this to the same really cute little bag-lady type person....oy! Will we ever learn, oh Mumma, we are so hilarious! Sigh. So she told us where we were because it is where she has to get home from everyday....yah....great...still don't know where the heck we are!

Hey there is a nice "normal"looking guy... tongue in cheek....well....hahahahahahahahahahahahahah, we should not have been surprised to find out that we were actually in RICHMOND! Yes that is right, the same Richmond that is NOT on the way from Surrey to Tsawwassen! Yuppers, yip, Yessiree, that is right-a-mundao! Same Richmond! the one by the Freakin' Airport!

At least now we knew where to call a cab! LOL!

So, all the way to the ferry we are howling, the cabbie must have thought we were nuts! we could hardly breathe we were laughing so hard... hey! That is what we do! What do you want? Crying? Okay, we thought of that but we were way to cold and tired....oh my goodness!

I actually texted Wayne that the cabbie was texting him because my fingers were numb....I think it was almost the truth!

We arrived at the ferry with 40 minutes to spare, mumma told me it was my "baby gift" . Perfect! and it fit beautifully!

A few minutes later I was upstairs waiting in the temporary waiting area under construction. Do you realize what that means? Yes! It was FREEZING COLD! LIke the rest of my morning! Puhleeeeeeze, can I catch a little warmth? and there is a jubilant family that has obviously just come back from some amazing tropical hot sweating tanning vacation sitting across from me laughing and joking and telling really funny warm stories.... WHAT EVER PEOPLE! (kidding, it was a really nice distraction! tee hee)

The ferry arrives, mum texts me from downstairs in the ladies arrivals bathroom, she has discovered the amazing gift of a heat blowing hand dryer....NICE! As I read her text, you will not flippen' believe this.... ready? Guess who I see checking the change return in the payphone on the wall of the freezing cold waiting area under construction? YES!!!! It is the same really cute little bag-lady type person! You have to know she did NOT spend $60 on a cab! OMG! I am almost in convulsions trying to text mumma back. Quick, bring the "undergarments", my bladder is not going to hold up for this one!

Oh, oh , oh, oh.... breathe, breathe, breathe. Whew, heart rate is coming down , stars are gone from my line of vision....aaaaaaaaaaaaaah. Okay.

I board the ferry. Hallelujah Lord, thank you for your goodness and grace.

La dee da dee da , llaaaa lllaaalalallalalaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! I am feeling great! Have a little lunch, every hot beverage they serve, TUB sized, and decide to sit in a quiet area and look over my photos and video of my beautiful little grand baby boys. Oh I love them so much I cannot even begin to tell you. My eyes fill with tears just thinking about them. Oh Lord you are So Good!

As I was looking at the pictures I was feeling so great. I thought I would be really organized and get my car keys ready so that when we docked, I would make an uneventful exit.

OH Joy! Uneventful was not to be the word of my day. My car was at Duke Point in the long term parking since Saturday...heh heh.....My keys were at that very moment NOT in my possession. (this photo was taken while I was on the ferry, by a very well meaning person who then emailed it to me to show that my keys were not really lost at all, THEY WERE JUST VISITING THE USA!)

But that is a story for another day!