Over The Highway And Through The Crowds

I was thinking of the song I learned in second grade, "Over the River and Through The Woods" today as the boys and I were trekking along in search of a table cloth.  It is funny the things that are hard to find in Singapore.  We went to FIVE different stores to find envelopes and still can not find file folders.  Today we wanted table clothes for our Thanksgiving dinner and of course events to come but.... where oh where are they?

There is a store chain in Singapore called "Giant" Sort of a K-Mart type thing.. so we decided to take a bus to the Giant.  I loaded up the directions on my "Go There" app for the I-Phone and it told us which bus to take and that we needed to go 13 stops then get off the bus and walk to "Turf City". 

We left in the heat of the day, not the wisest choice in hind sight.  As the bus was going I was excited that I actually noticed some things and at moments knew where I was, but then I lost track of how many stops we passed, you see, the bus does not stop at every stop only if someone is standing at the stop or if someone pushes the "stop" button on the bus so you really have to pay attention if you are counting stops.

So I asked the bus driver which stop Turf City was as I was thinking it should be coming up soon.  He said,  Turf City is back there.... you will have to walk back to the last stop.  Uh oh.  We did not see anything that looked like a mall at all so when in doubt ask right?  Into the 711 we went to try and find our mall.  The man behind the counter was surprised we were walking there, he said it is over the highway and down a ways then you will see the mall. 

The boys were tired, we were all hot and we walked, and walked and walked, then off in the distance we saw the mall.  Oh man.  The only thing to do now is to just keep walking and get there so we could get into some air conditioning, good thing we brought our water bottles with us. 

Finally we found the Giant store and yes, we found table clothes and even charcoal and potting soil but we knew there was no way we were walking all the way back to the bus stop with all of our stuff so we asked the cashier where the taxi stand was.  All she did was point in a general direction and the man standing in the next line over volunteered to take us to the taxi stand, he said it was a five minute walk and good thing he took us because we would have never found it.

The taxi driver looked at the map on my phone and said he knew where we lived and so we were off when Keegan said "Mom look at Caleb, I don't think he is doing so good".  Oh he did not look good at all, I instantly had him drinking water as I figured he was dehydrated but as soon as we got home he went right to bed and now complains of his stomach hurting but he is looking much better.

We are learning that you really can not push yourself too much or you will pay for it later and with missing our stop and then walking all that way to the mall, it was too much.  Well anyway here is our Thanksgiving table and we are thankful for many, many things this year.

"Thankful people have a view of life that begins somewhere deep in their souls, and outside circumstances just can't mar their joy.  To them, life is a wonderful, continuous dream come true.  All of life is blessed, and they see themselves as being in a continual feast" ~ Debi Perl

As you feast with your family may you be thankful for the blessings in your life.