On May 15th, Ami and I made it to three years together. We didn't really celebrate anything on the day in self because it was a Monday and we both had to work the next day. Laila was on vacation that week so i covered her shift. It meant that for four days out of the five i work, i opened the store. Not that i wanted to, but i figured that i wanted Laila to have fun with her family without having to worry about anything at work. I hope she did. I know for the first two days, she probably had a lot of rain....which is no fun at Disney=0). In the morning, i look forward to hearing all about her adventures.maybe i get vacation happy too. whenever i hear other people are on vacation, i like taking little trips for myself. On our anniversary, I made up a little fib and I had Ami going along with it until the very last minute. I did not buy him a present because i know that jewelry would be something he would wear for a few days and then take off and put aside. I wanted him to have something to remember so i told him that i had gotten him tickets to the Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum in St. Augustine. where i found that idea that quickly, i still do not know. There's a little belief that circles around that when you do not plan something, you have a lot more fun. I've realized that. Very rarely, we will decide something more than a week before. Up until Friday night, ami wasn't sure that he was going to go because it was a long trip for only two people and we needed an extra person. we like having company on long trips....for the driver's sake. i really insisted though.
on saturday morning, i called ami around 7:15 am and he was just waking up. at 7:30 he called me back and said that we were leaving at 8:30. furgie woke up at 8:00 and said that she would go also so our trip was on. the museum was awesome!
we spent almost two hours in there looking at really cool artifacts and freak-like "believe it or not" stuff. it was something to see! after, we went to the St. Augustine Lighthouse and we climbed all the 219 stairs to the top and beheld a really breathtaking view of the entire surroundings. it was a really hard climb though and i realized i was more afraid of falling down the stairs than falling from the top of the lighthouse!
after, we took a cruise around the historic district. it lasted for about an hour and a half but ami and furgie were having a lot of fun. we went to the castillo de san marcos after, a spanish fort, and then finally we walked over to the st. augustine cathedral and took pictures on the grounds. mass was finished for the day so we ended up peeping through the door to get a look at inside the church. st. augustine is definitely a place i would visit again. it is a beautiful city; very old and well preserved. the architecture is amazing also.On Friday night, i stood in line and waited to get in the cinema to see "The Da Vinci Code." It was a very well made movie. followed very closely to the book. ami and nan really liked the movie also. i have never seen the cinema as packed as it was on that night. at the end of the movie, people applauded. i think i ruined the surprise by reading the book first. nan told me that she was genuinely surprised at the climax of the movie. that's when i knew i had ruined the surprise. well, at least furgie is reading the book now....and taking notes too. Earlier in the day, a lady gave me a book that disproved events and things in the original novel. i thought that it was a cheap response to the novel and the little book was a poor attempt at fighting something that was not meant to be fought. it was almost like taking offence where there was no offence. a catholic told me: "so what if Jesus had a wife? it would be more believable for me as a human." my opinion is a little bit different but it is definitely not a movie for narrow minded or indoctrinated people.
Finally, there was a trinidadian guy that was arrested for being a sexual predator about two weeks ago. Apparently, he thought that the "14 year old girl" he was chatting with was really a police officer. now, that is a serious criminal offence in the US. In other countries, these criminals get off easily but not here. it is a label that stays with one for life....very much like the scent of a skunk. sexual predators are arrested on an almost daily basis here but the thing that made this one stand out was that he showed up naked at the "girl's" house with a can of whipped cream....apart from the fact that he went to the same school as we did and he used to come in the store from time to time to buy books. Jeezum crow! i had a good laugh even though it was so serious. the newspaper described that he wanted her to do some kind of bizarre sexual act with her cat too. my cousin sent the story to me. now, my cousins play alot and in the title box, he wrote: "here kitty kitty kitty kitty." i guess if my cousin didn't do that, it would have been a rather embarrassing thing for our entire trini community here since we are so little in south fla. on top of being embarrassed, this guy is naked at the house and he sees a male police officer and he tells the officer to leave and not to interrupt him. i guess it took him a while to realize that he was being caught. so after all that, the officers took his mugshot with him nude. really, i feel no pity for him. of all the women that he could possibly find to talk to, he looks for a fourteen year old child! there is no excuse for that. they aren't even developed properly...physically or mentally! so i guess marvin lakhan will be branded with a new name for life.....sexual predator.
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