A Jonah Day

Yesterday was a day that will seem funny in about 5 years. Brian was working on our visa stuff yesterday when Jessie cut herself badly right below her eye. We spent half the day and $400 to get that fixed and our poor dog is wandering around with a plastic cone on her head. She keeps crashing into stuff-- every 5 minutes or so I hear a noise in the distance. What's that? My dog crashing into boxes, the stroller, the doorway, whatever. She looks so pathetic. Anyway, we finally get home from the vet and we're late to meet some friends for a baseball game. We finally get there through crazy traffic and it is sprinkling. We had no rain gear with us. After an hour of rain delay, the game starts and we slosh through the crowd to our seats, which are very wet. So we settle in to watch the game. During the second inning huge raindrops come kerplunking out of the sky. They start slowly but then increase into a typical Florida monsoon and we are stuck out in the rain fighting through a huge crowd to find some dry space. The rain was coming down in sheets as it only can in Florida. So after 20 minutes of that, we decided that the game would probably be called, and even if it wasn't it would be very late before they started again. So we left. On the drive back to our friends' house, the left windshield wiper of the car stopped wiping. Then the lights grew dimmer and dimmer, and the radio stopped working. When we got to the house Brian shut off the car and it refused to restart. We jumped it and it made it 1/2 mile. Our dear friends let us borrow their 15 passenger van to make it home. So our car is about 30 miles from home right now and we've got to find a way to get it fixed today. Neither of us want to think about it is going to cost!

By the end of the night, we were laughing. It was just a crazy day. We don't what God is trying to teach us, but we know it must be something. I have to run and get some stuff done since yesterday was such a bust, but I wanted to record this day for posterity!