My car lost in freak accident

Yesterday, September 30th started out pretty good. I drove into town to take my dog to the groomer, had coffee with my sister, applied for a job as a substitute teacher, then, because I still had time to kill before I could pick up my dog, went to Marshalls to do a little Christmas Shopping. I was in the store about 20 minutes. By this time it was about 12:30 and I decided to go get some lunch. I walked out of the store and saw an ambulance, several police cars, two fire engines and a local tv news truck. HMMMMM! What could have happened here? All these vehicles were blocking the view of my parking spot. When I could finally see my car I could not believe my eyes!

Here are photos of the scene.




The red car is mine. The Ford F150 demolished the side of my car and pushed it into the Land Rover, which took care of the other side. Notice the wheel of the truck is on the hood of the Toyota SUV.

The Land Rover and SUV were able to drive away. My car had to be placed on a flat bed because the suspension system was destroyed. I just heard from the body shop. My car will be totaled, sigh......

Now begins the insurance mess! I am sitting around waiting on phone calls from my insurance company who is contacting the Ford F150 owner to demand they pay for an auto rental for me until they can get me another car.

I loved my car! It only had 60,000 miles, no dings and got over 30 miles per gallon!

WHY ME?

Hawaii At Last!

I just returned from my visit to see my son in Hawaii. He lives on Oahu up in the mountains, a region called Tantalus. Absolutely gorgeous! The photo above was taken at Paradise Cove where we attended a Luau. It was fun and the food was great!


This is a photo of the North Shore beach...my favorite beach. Hardly anyone was there. But apparently in the winter months the waves get very big and this is a favorite beach for surfers. We saw about 10 sea turtles swimming in the surf and just as we were going to leave, one of the turtles decided to come out of the water. Here is the photo of the turtle.

My son, Geoff, lives high above Honolulu in the rain forest. Below are some photos of the view of Honolulu from the road he travels daily to get to work.


There was so much to see. I took over 250 photos. Here are some of them. The plant life and the trees were incredible.
This was taken on a trail not far from Geoff's house. The roots of these trees are incredible!

Check out the root system of this Chinese Banyan tree!!!!

This is one of the flowers growing in Geoff's little garden in front of his house.Besides the turtle, I really didn't get many photos of animal life. But here are a few.

This is Geoff's little "jungle kitty"
Can't leave out the sunsets and the Hula Girls

I had such a wonderful time. Geoff took me out to eat a lot and was such a great host! I had lots of fish, Chinese food, Thai food, Vietnamese food, Hawaiian food (I tried poi...once) and one of my favorite things was the Ahi burger and garlic fries we had a little place near the North shore.

I look forward to another visit soon.....if the airline prices ever go down!