Memory Lane

One of my favourite things to do, is to take a trip down memory lane. They usually include long drives and a ton of laughter. Did I mention I am direction-ally challenged, even with a GPS.  Don't ask. It's hereditary. I inherited it from my mother.   

My Mom lives in Alberta.  I was on a work conference last year, it was 1.5 hrs from her house, so I extended my stay so I could stay and  visit with her.  She was picking me up on the last day.  I was so excited, I hadn't seen her in a year.    We hugged for what seemed like ages.  I hopped into the drivers seat. Mom had her GPS on already. 

We left the hotel, and right away we made a wrong turn... "turn here Carrie" mom said...ignoring what the GPS was saying.. so as an obedient daughter I did as I was told.  We just did a big loop, that hotel on the right looked awfully familiar. We must have drove past that  hotel 5 times before we realised we were going in the wrong direction. Each time we past it, we  laughed even harder, we were almost crying by this point.  We finally  made it to the highway.

Phew.. we were cruising, talking and getting caught up on the past year.   We just kept driving.  Not a care to be had. Then we saw the sign, Rocky Mountain House 35kms away.

Mom turned off her GPS, she was confident where we were going. We were headed in the complete opposite direction.  A drive that should have taken 1.5 hours ended up taking 5 hours.  We stopped and had breakfast and regrouped.    Moments like that happened a lot when her and I are together.  We lose all common sense, and we just end up laughing so hard to the point of crying.