We are truly blessed

So the plan was that we should go back to Gina's and watch a movie or something because we were kind of tired and we'd missed the 10:30 movies, and with them we always end up watching either sappy chick flicks or shootemup thrillers, neither of which are my thing.

I showed them the farm tour back route through Pitt Meadows and they were surprised to find out that it's nearly 20 minutes faster, even when there's no traffic on the freeway. We were halfway through Poco before Gina realized where we were.

But at the same time, Kathy had to acknowledge that if I hadn't been in the backseat, she would have gotten horribly lost, mostly because the back route involves a lot of driving two blocks in one direction, one block in another direction on two laned roads that make sudden 90 degree turns and are completely pitch black at night.

At one point in time we ended up at an odd four-way intersection where the roads don't quite match up. You stop at the stop sign to find a big yellow sign and a telephone pole directly in front of you and two roads, one to the left and one to the right. Kathy, being the responsible driver she is, asked me "left or right?"

To which I replied, "straight."

"There's no road there."

"Yes there is. Just keep following the one we're on."

"Erin, there is no road there!"

"You must cast the devil out of your heart and accept the gospel of Erin, sinner. The gospel of Erin is love and salvation. So onward and repent!"

And what do you know? There was a road there. A miracle, I tell you! Praise be to the Lord!

We got to Ginas only to find that she didn't have her keys and we were locked out. Luckily Brown was there to let us in, but that involved waking him up first, which proved difficult because his phone was off and the only window we could reach to knock on was the kitchen window.

We beat his window with a snowshovel until he finally opened the door. "Sorry for waking you," I said, with a smile. Evidently not charming enough because he looked at all of us, smiled, muttered something under his breath and then locked us out again.

"We're not drunk! Honest!" we screeched until he finally let us in. Another miracle. We are truly blessed.