So, the trip to Crusades was uneventfully, eventful. I started out late on Thursday night cause I worked late. Stayed in a hotel alone (which I hate) but arrived just at the right time in the am in Raleigh to pick up Nia. Good thing as we had several errands to run and in a monsoon. I had made the dubious choice of wearing a white cotton batiste shirt. Yep, not exactly rain appropriate so in the end we stopped and bought T-shirts at the mall. Off we went to MD at just after noon with detours to 301 due to the alert about the sniper.

Now, those who know me know how easy it is for me to get anxious on a trip and who knew there were so many white vans, SUVs and trucks on the road? So here we are in MD on 301 with a road atlas and me without my reading glasses. Nia-"Which way to 95?" Me-"I dunno, but the folks in Eastern MD have to go to DC somehow, it is our nation's capital after all!" Nia-gives baleful look. Me (as Nia is driving) "What is this tiny number here on this road...it should work." Riiiinnnnggg! It is Emma on the cell. "Take 5 from 301"she says (good to have a telepathic protege')

So then we are headed for DC but we decide to continue up to Baltimore to avoid more of DC. Which road again? There is a little green line and two blue lines across the Chesapeake. I am thinking green is likely the LONG tunnel. Shorter of the too blues is probably a short bridge (my theory). After all, I am almost phobic about heights and particularly high curves which obscure which way the downward slope will take. Better to be a short bad experience, so we choose 695.

Shortly we go over a short flat bridge and just as I think, "Hmmm, that was nothing!" Then as we round a curve, I am struck by a bizarre sight. A large cruise ship (multideck, blinking lights, white-strikingly beautiful) is stretched across in front of me. Just behind I can see the suspension system of a bridge almost parallel to it. Then I register the ramp...Yep, curving up and over the ship onto a bridge. It only took seconds to register the impact of this and we were on the bridge. Nia-"Cool, like at that ship!" Me in staccato fashion (on the cell with Les who is at the fair with the girls) "Oh my GOD we are on a bridge! Gotta go! NO! stay with me and talk to me! What did the girls do today!" Les-"Well, they went to school..." smartie pants.

I hang up and for a time I am saying over and over "Oh, my God" and "Sweet, Heavenly Father!" til Nia says-"Quit praying!"

We get to site and Nia tells everyone it was a boat.....Yea it was....the Love Boat, maybe!

Coming home was anticlimatic in comparison! The latest in the surveys...nope, no surprises here!

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