What a night. The Cheerleader, Sunshine and I all decided to head out to a food festival here in town.
The Cheerleader was already there, and Sunshine and I were going to meet her.
She told us parking was difficult but I had no idea.
I circled the lot so many times a cop stopped me and told me where the public parking lot was located.
We headed that direction but of course we weren't happy with having to park and be bused to the event so we took matters into our own hands.
Sunshine directed me to an empty lot in front of a store that was closed for the day... BINGO!
I parked and we hopped out and started on our way. Unfortunately we weren't planning ahead and when we started walking we realized there was absolutely no shoulder or sidewalk to get us there.
We were walking in the 12 inch space on the asphalt between the paint on the side of the road and a giant hill, with cars heading in our direction.
Did I mention it was uphill and we were both in heels too? There was some seriously bad planning on this one.
We decided we hadn't done something like this since college walking to or home from a party.
At one point we looked up and saw a bus heading toward us in the lane, and we both tensed up.
We didn't have anywhere to go so we just grinned and beared it. Luckily we made it through unscathed, but after the bus zipped by Sunshine said 'oh my God! I think that bus came dangerously close to hitting my purse!'
I thought the same thing, we finally made it to the event and ate some delicious dishes from some great restaurants.
By the time we were ready to start on the hike back to the car it was dark... crap!
This time we were walking with traffic and we realized we were both wearing black... perfect.
We were road kill waiting to happen.
We waited for a line of cars to go before we set out back down the hill in the dark.
About half way down I heard something in the bushes next to me. We were walking in the middle of nowhere so there is no idea what creatures could be lurking out there waiting to pounce on us.
If the cars didn't kill us, the critters would. I heard the sounds a few more times, so we picked up the pace and thankfully made it safely to the car.
It's funny how that small hike has turned into 'living on the edge' for me, but as you get older you also get wiser and perspective is everything.
I'm sure in 10 years I'll look back on this moment and think 'boy was that crazy!'
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