When I was Swimming with the Fish

Several years ago, we took a short vacation and drove down to Arizona. It wasn't going to be anything special just an opportunity to get away for a week and relax in the sun.

There were a number of special memories about that vacation and as I dwell on it, I'm sure I could tell you more. On the way down from Colorado, we decided to drive at night and camp somewhere half way. That was going to be somewhere in Northern New Mexico. As we were leaving Colorado and heading south into New Mexico, we approached some very severe weather. This was the beginning of June and the thunderstorms were rolling. It was tough driving as we passed Santa Fe and through Albuquerque. Driving out of Albuquerque in a torrent of rain, we made the decision we were going to drive straight thru until we reached the Grand Canyon. Being tired, we decided it would be best if we stopped at the next rest stop. Fortunately, there was a truck stop so we could grab a cup of coffee.

As we were pulling of I-40 through all of the lightning and thunder, our son woke up. He looked around and said, "What was that noise?" We wer astounded that he slept through all the thunder as it was. We asked him, "What noise?" He responded, "THE NOISE I HEARD WHEN I WAS SWIMMING WITH THE FISH!"

Needless to say, we really needed to stop driving then because we were hysterical in laughter for the next ten minutes!