This weekend Kent and I escaped on our first "Date of 2017". A weekend away to Tofino. When I was planning this date, we didn't know what 2017 would bring......surgery? Chemotherapy? radiation? I decided we should escape first.
On Saturday as we were heading out of town, Kent stated he wanted to go to Best Buy and get a cord...for doing something electronic-y.
We head to Uptown and knowing that we'd never find parking near Best Buy, I told Kent that I'd keep circling the parking lot while he ran in for said cord.
He stopped in front of Best Buy, we trade places and I'm now driving around the lot when WHAM-O! Not really, but WoW! There's a parking spot. I waited to see if anyone else wanted it--and no one seemed to want it, so I took it! I turned off the car engine and thought, I'll go get us a drink.
I got out of the car headed towards Starbucks when I see a Dad with 2 toddlers. There was something odd about it all, I was slightly intrigued....so I followed him as he turned toward the "up" escalator. I was quite a distance from him, he and the 2 kids about 1/2 way up the escalator, when it happens.
The older toddler, about 3 was holding Dad's hand. The younger child, about 18 months old, wasn't and it took seconds for him to lose his balance and tumble down the escalator.
I started running. I was thinking, jacket pulls, shoe laces, baby fingers--all don't mix well with the metal of the escalator.
Dad started running....down the "up" escalator. I caught the babe just as he hit the bottom of the escalator. I waited for Dad to make it to the bottom as his 3 year old has slowly made his way to the top of the escalator.
I said to the Dad, "I think this is yours?"
He abruptly states, "Yes." and turned on his heel and ran away--to his older toddler who was being taken care of by another stranger.
I think this is a day at the mall his baby Mama's not going to hear about.
I love moments like this in life, right place, right time. What seems like an ordinary day when we changed gears, went to Uptown, all orchestrated....providentially orchestrated so that a toddler and his dad are cared for....with all fingers intact.
Onto Tofino we went for a quiet weekend.
We walked on beaches, watched crashing waves, ate, slept, played, rested. It was a great weekend.
MacKENTzie Beach. ;)
Beach at Incinerator Rock
While taking this photo Kent was in the way....
This was his solution to me getting this cool picture....
STORM Surf Shop, a shirt for Max
At the local grocery store....we found Barney.
Relaxed.
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