To continue with my story, we stayed up all night playing UNO, playing video games, watching T.V., exercising, and going for late-night walks. In the end, we wound up falling asleep on the couch with the T.V. on at about 5:30. Dolly woke us up at about 6:15 to ask us about the bags. When she left, we hung around the house a little longer, taking showers & exercising. A little later, we walked with Patti’s bike to the mall, but it wasn’t going to open until 9:00, so we hung around in the mall’s laundromat, the only thing open there.
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What we planned to do was buy a bike on sale, pay $5 to have this kid put it together, then bike home to pick up our bags & head for Dawn’s. Unfortunately, the kid wouldn’t get there until 4:00, but that didn’t make any difference because they were out of the bikes on sale. We ended up walking home with the bike. Before we got home, though, we passed an old-looking cemetery and I convinced Patti to stop there. We parked the bike a little way in and wandered off in separate directions to read the old tombstones. Just being in the cemetery gave you a sense of mystery and adventure. Nobody had been buried in over 30 years and most were from the 1800’s. It was just like the kind you see in scary movies, with the tombstones tilted to the side, some large monuments, most too worn to read, some half-buried, and some were stacked up or leaning against others. It was really eerie, even in the daytime. There were a bunch of kids playing nearby in their backyard, and you could just imagine all the adventures they would have there and the memories they would make. They had a little, white, scruffy dog that kept following us around, barking at us. You could tell he was really scared of us because he kept at least 5 feet away and would jump back if we moved in his direction. He added to the mystery, because it seemed as though he was protecting the spirits by trying to scare us away. Eventually we left and continued toward the downtown area. When we got there we stopped at the animal shelter. There was a small collie with his front paw & leg in what looked like a cast. Apparently he decided it would be fun to chase a lawn mower.
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I just finished writing a letter to Raul, a hispanic guy whose a friend of Trevor’s, Patti’s boyfriend. I wrote it in all Spanish to see if he can translate it. Patti got out her camera & took a really cool picture of me without my glasses, then I took one of her with a small water gun. Her hair looked a really cool shade of red & really nice.
Anyway, at the animal shelter Patti adopted a furry white kitten with grey on top of her head. We couldn’t decide between Princess or Sugar.
