I wouldn't call it a miracle, but I have a funny, odd, warm-n-fuzzy little story to tell you that gets cooler as it goes on. Last night on the way home from Shade's volleyball tourney, on a mountain pass, in the rain, in the nearing dark, in an area with no cell reception, we had a tire blow out. A car pulled up behind us a couple minutes later and out got a 25-30ish looking guy. I was thinking to myself "not very comfortable here alone in the darkening woods with my teenage daughter and a lone guy, wish there was a woman with him." I turn around to face his empty car and NOW there is a woman sitting in the passenger seat, who gets out of the car. She was wearing a light colored short-sleeved t-shirt. I turned my back on her for just long enough to move something out of the back of my Ford Explorer to the side of it, maybe 10-15 seconds, and when I turned back around she was wearing a dark blue BYU sweatshirt with the hood pulled up, still standing in the exact same location and position. She asked us where we were headed and I told her and then asked the same of her. She replied they had spent the day in Leavenworth and were now heading home to Seattle. What you, the readers, don't know is that we were headed TOWARDS Leavenworth and AWAY from Seattle at the time, so they were going the wrong direction. I didn't catch that right then though, but I did say to her "oh, well, you won't like the stretch between Cle Elum and Easton then because the holiday traffic is completely stopped." She replied "is there another way to get to Seattle from here" and I said "no, only back through Leavenworth and Highway 2" and she says "well, it doesn't really matter anyway, we have a GPS unit that always gets us home." I then say that I'm sorry they are so delayed in getting home because of helping us and she says "oh its no problem, we have all the time in the world." As I see the guy laying on the pavement under our car, I comment that there is no way I could have done that, having had a total hip replacement earlier in the year and not being able to get on the ground like that and she says "oh, no worries, he's the best one for this." All this is just a little odd to me, the way she phrases things, the way it seemed like the whole event was taking a long time but in reality was very quick. He finishes up with the tire, we get back on the road and they follow us for a good 5 mintues, like RIGHT behind me. I see them in the rear view mirror and half jokingly say to Shade "now its making me nervous to drive if they're following right behind me." She looks in the side mirror and says "yea, they are so close." Right at that moment, three cars pass by going the opposite direction and my gaze shifts to the side mirror to notice the three cars, now receeding, in the opposite lane. My eyes switch back to the rearview mirror, having only been diverted for maybe 5 seconds, and THEY ARE GONE. Just vanished. This is a mountain pass, only one lane each direction and I can clearly see both sides of the road, both lanes and the three cars traveling in the opposite direction, and yet, there is no one behind me any longer. They've not pulled over, turned around, passed us, nothing. Just gone. I looked at Shade, who had also been watching them in her side mirror, and she at me and she says slowly "mom, where. Did. They. Go?" Right then, as I'm admitting to myself that they really did seem to disappear into thin air, it begins to rain again. Big, fat heavy drops that make it nearly impossible to see. Shade says "DJ (my husband) will think we're crazy (he did), but I am your witness and you are mine." And I say "yea, because I'm thinking 'guardian angel'," and Shade, with perfect comic timing says "in a Civic?" LOL yes, apparently they drive Honda Civics. Isn't that a crazy weird cool story? The whole thing, start to finish, maybe 15 minutes, yet seemed so much longer.
On the volleyball front, the girls won 1st place in the Bronze division. It was hot and humid and a really rough three days of hard volleyball. Our next, and last, tournament of the season will be the Junior Olympics in Dallas June 27-July 2. It's all wrapping up for this club season and then in August it starts again with the varsity high school team...
