As David and I were eating some "brunch" today, he received a call from his dispatcher that needed to be handled right away. There was a vehicle that had broken down on the freeway (having to drop whatever you may be doing and go "run a call" is commonplace when you are a tow driver or have a tow driver in the family lol). We quickly learned that this tow would be going quite a distance. There was no time to contemplate what I wanted to do, the call needed to be handled and since I was there, I found myself in the tow truck on my way to what would be a 5-6 hour roundtrip drive. This was not how I had intended to spend my one full day that I had without any kiddo's around. I love them to death, but lets face it everyone can use a break on occasion lol. I began to think about the things I had planned on doing today, where I was planning to go etc. none of that would be happening now, because instead I would be in a tow truck for hours. To be honest I was mentally doing quite a bit of grumbling, and whining to myself, you know the whole....poor me, my plans have been changed and now my "day off" is ruined type of pity party although I was keeping it all to myself. Hey at least I wasn't sharing my pity party. Haha.
But a funny thing happened on the way to Heber lol. I started taking in the beautiful scenery, I don't get to see greenery and beautiful pine trees very often and therefore I am easily amused. Then I began to notice the definite change in temperature, it was beautiful compared to the valley temp of 111 that we were expecting today. Eventually we went through a very short but refreshing rain storm. This rainstorm left behind the most beautiful, breathtaking rainbow I have ever had the pleasure of experiencing. It was bright and looked as if it was directly in front of a mountain, and although my description couldn't possibly do it justice, it was wonderful and unique. Then as we continued driving home I was blessed to see a equally beautiful sunset over the mountains, and then when we were almost home a huge black bird of some sort flew directly over our path on the freeway and it was carrying a snake! EEk, I happen to love snakes but must admit it never occurred to me that a bird of any size would share my love of them, and it was one of those things that I tend to refer to as a once in a lifetime experience, or something I doubt I will have the opportunity to see again. As it turned out the only thing I regretted about my last minute unplanned trip, was that I had not had time to get my camera and bring it along for the trip. I would have loved to have had a chance to photograph so many of the special things I saw and enjoyed today! Not to mention there was the added benefit of getting to spend some quality time with David, something we don't get much of a chance to do these days.
I guess the point that I am trying to make is this: Sometimes life doesn't go as planned, sometimes- oftentimes actually... life has other ideas. :-) But that doesn't mean we can't learn from or enjoy the experience, if we just open our minds and hearts to what is right in front of us. Sometimes we just have to go with the flow and trust life to deliver to us just what we need in a given moment (even if we weren't aware that we needed it!).
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