The Adventures in Blessyland

Today we woke up with the chickens at 6am. YIKES! Shell didn't sleep well last night to say the least.:( I think the craziness from the selling of the house and the signing of the final papers was really getting to her nerves. The screaming and continuous wandering around the room turning lights on and off was awful. Finally, around 4am i got her to stay in her bed and fall asleep. We ate our "continental breakfast" at Best Western in Arlington and started on our journey. The drive was not too bad at all. We drove straight for about 4 hours in to Louisiana and got into Nacatochis where Pepas friend lives. Old people crack me up how they do things. They use real maps and phone books. Holy crap! Those things actually work! LOL! Pepa's friend Alan Wilkes lives in Nacatochis but Pepa did not know where. After all, he hadn't see the man in 30 some odd years but they are still best of friends through mail. So we stopped at a Texaco in Nacatochis and looked him up the good old fashioned way. Pepa did give me a scare when he stepped out of the car at the gas station and fell over face first into the concrete. I know that he blacked out cause he didn't really remember any of it. He was a little banged up and bleeding but he insisted that he was fine and it was only from the medicine that he has been taking and all the "gas fumes"! Whatever, he is just stubborn. I hope that its really nothing serious. Please God I pray that it is nothing serious! So on with the story... I found Alan's number in a  phone book at the Gas Station and called him and he was not surprised to hear from me. Apparently, Pepa had written him that we were coming. He gave me directions and off we went. Little did i know i was going to get lost and tuned around two or three times in the town of CORN! We did arrive at Alan's and he was so nice to us all. His wife made us all sandwiches and asked me if i would like to take a nap. I gladly accepted since i had almost no sleep and was fighting to keep my eyes open at this time. About an hour later after my nap i woke up to Pepa and Alan, his best high school friend, laughing and carrying on about the old days. I took their picture and visited for awhile and then off we went. Pepa was ecstatic. I love him so much! Strangely enough Once again we got lost in a Nacatochis Corn Field again on the way out. Alan had suggested a better way for us to get to the highway, when i myself was thinking i don't even remember how the hell i got us here, but ok. About an hour later we did get back on track. You would think that my patients would be wearing thin by now but every time i felt stressed i laughed. Not a fake laugh like a huge laugh. It felt good too! That must be GOD! Shell took a nap while we were lost and woke up about 30 minutes from our destination three hours away in Ville Platte, LA. Tonight we are going to eat at a restaurant named "The Pig Stand" where apparently Pepa used to "hang out". Weird hearing him say that. I am going to bed early. Night Night :)