Boat Picture!, Anniversary and Horrible Accident

Hello All,

Here's the moment you've been waiting for... finally a picture of our $500 boat! We took the boat to Lake Syracuse and used the channels to get to Lake Wawasee tonight. We ate at The Frog. It's a restaurant that you boat up to, tie up at their dock and get out and eat. The weather was perfect! Madison was still scared but made improvements in the fear factor over the last time. Don, Isy and Dutchess went along too. Overall is was the best boating yet. The new spark plug was very helpful and we were able to go faster... however, now the speedometer doesn't work!

Today is our 16th wedding anniversary. We can hardly believe that number. It just doesn't seem possible. He sent me a beautiful bouquet of flowers this afternoon. That's always a special treat. He's very good about remembering special dates like this.

Today was my day off from work. It started out great... I met Lisa, Karla and Eliza at Panera's for coffee. After that I went to Wal-mart for a few things. This is pretty much where the morning fun ended. I drove over to the Bag Factory area because I thought I remembered that there was going to be a garage sale and whatever the ad said, peaked my interest. I didn't find the sale and started to head for home. Unfortunately I was the witness to a horrible accident near the corner of Indiana and Chicago Ave. An older lady rode her bike into the path of a car and was hit. I've replayed those few seconds over and over in my mind today at least 100 times. I'll spare you all the details...too many to write here. She was unconscious and bleeding but breathing when they took her to the hospital. I'm sure she is in very critical condition if she survived. I had to give a statement to the police... the whole thing. It was a nightmare and I can hardly think of anything else. No, she wasn't wearing a helmet so let's take that away as a lesson to learn. I'm pretty strict in the safety dept. and now I'll be even worse!!! I really don't know if a helmet would have helped but who knows... it may have. I'll be able to find out more about her when I go to work on Monday so stand-by for Monday night's blog.

Well, tomorrow morning brings an 8am soccer game for Madison. She is sooooo NOT a morning person so I'm wondering how she will do. Tune in tomorrow night for the details! : )

Love to All,
Leah