I am celebrating the ending of a fabulous weekend, the beginning of the work week, the coming weekend in which I will be traveling to Seattle and spending three days with my girlfriends. A lot in one day. Of course, I am also trying not to think too much about the fact that this is the fifth anniversary of 9-11.
To get that out of the way, I will tell you that on 9-11 I was awoken by a phone call from my husband who was crying and told me that Howard Stern had just announced that an airplane had flown into the World Trade Center. Two minutes later I was on the phone to Sgt. Miah Washburn (Paul's good friend) woke him up and told him to turn on the TV. Then I woke up my friend Kathleen and told her to turn on the TV. We sat and talked as we watched the newscast.
I was 7 months pregnant with Jack at the time and I sat in my small bedroom on Galloway at the time. Perched at the edge of my bed, watching the 20" screen glowing with not just one tower, but two, on fire from terrorists that had hijacked planes and flown into them.
It was a horrific morning. A day that was full of grief, sadness and unbelief over what had taken place. I was worried that my husband was going to be deployed before the birth of our second son. I was worried that there was more to come on our coast. I cried over the loss of life that morning.
It is one of those things that I will always remember. Just like those in the generation before me will remember where they were when JFK got shot.
Now, onto the exciting.... I am really happy to announce that I get a girls weekend in Seattle. Thursday after work Tina will be picking me up and I will crash at her place. Then we are going to head off for Seattle Friday morning. We will catch up with Frances there. I haven't seen Frances since our 30th birthday bash weekend there. It was crazy.....
So she flew in from Paris to attend a wedding and Tina and I saw an opp for a roadtrip and are taking it.
On my agenda: go to the Space Needle and take a picture for the scrapbook! Get a picture on the pig in Pikes Place Market. Eat really good food, drink and be merry.
I will report how all this goes down of course.
Paul and the boys will be fishing this weekend. Going to try their hands at river fishing this time in Hebo.
Well, I am out. The day at the beach is lovely and I want to stand in the sun and breathe deeply.
9-11-06
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