spend some time in america.

so i'm back from richmond - some awesome - some fail.
while i wait for a cam of anoes to load i'm gonna write down the awesome parts - don't worry i'll write down the disasters too.
so - i picked zrg up earlier than we had planned because i was gonna have to leave around five and i wanted to give the moc.org a proper go and get back to spend some time with my other noodles.

so we got downtown (thanks to the gps) and went straight to the elevator and wound up messing that up - getting back on the elevator with a gang and i admit - i was scared.
i mean my son was holding a confederacy flag.
sure nuff we were fine.

we did the tour of the artifacts from the south's side of the war - including a bunch of r.e.lee stuff (which he loved) - and looked at a bunch of old flags, guns and bullets. he loved that shit - but the tour of the white house - (which for those not in the know *me yesterday*) - the white house was where jefferson davis (the pres of the confederacy and almost a new country) set up camp.

some guy came up to me after the tour and told me that he admires me for not restricting zakkary's questions during the tour - and he had plenty. and not only did that make me feel good but zakkary felt good too.
he was a little sidetracked with a part of the tour that was kind of tragic. joseph - their then five year old - fell off a balcony and suffered head trauma. zakkary was talking about this the rest of the day - i don't think he's ever heard a story about a real boy that died.
he thought even saw some scattered blood.

we made it back to get mcdonalds - and play with the other kids for quite a bit. after i had a moment with jdg where i wanted to clear the air about something - it seems it wasn't even in his head - just mine. so that was pretty cool and instantly i felt this weight lift - so when i got in the car and texted sharon that i did what i intended on doing - and wrote it all out - and even wrote out jdg's reaction:

he texted me back - "um, i think you meant that for someone else."

fuck. how can i be so smooth at some things and totally fuck up the rest.
but like sharon said maybe it was meant to happen that way.
who knows.

another thing was classic - was jdg added his jeopardy knowledge of jefferson davis - he's a jew. no wonder the south lost.


now i'm home and that movie is loading - and i'm eating a pink lady (my fav apple ever) and hoping i can remember all i have to do this week.
ok - tg - stay in today.

that's a banner outside a strip club in richmond.... somethings might not ever change.