Head in the clouds
Yesterday I took the family (minus my wife) to a family gathering at my aunt's house in San Leandro. It was an awesome experience that was prefaced by some rather cool cloud shapes spotted along the way.
I'd like to show you pictures of what we saw because I really doubt that you'd believe me if I just tell you. But my camera (er, phone) was dying at the time and I wasn't able to take any pictures so you are going to have to take my word for it this time, ok?
It started with "Free"
While driving along the freeway, being frustrated at the thought of early afternoon traffic making my drive a 40 MPH crawl, my oldest daughter Sarah mentioned that she saw the word "Free" written across the sky in the clouds. As I looked closely I could almost make out FREE, though to my Linux based OS of a brain, I could barely see FREE but was able to clearly see RHEL.
As we continued to look skyward we saw quite a few things present themselves. My four year old, Alaynah, saw an arrow. When I looked, I saw a very clear white cloud arrow, sweeping downward toward the Earth. In fact, the entire car saw it. It was plain as day and stayed that way almost the entire trip.
Sarah also saw what appeared to be a baby elephant laying down on its belly with its trunk straight out. I saw that, too. So did one of my other kids.
Then Sarah saw a car with no wheels. It looked like something out of an illustration. I could see the windshield, the driver side front window, the "A" pillar, the hood of the car and the wheel wells missing their wheels. It was uncanny.
Soon after that I saw as plain as the nose on my face the number "3". My kids saw that one too.
Then, as we got off the freeway, Rebekah saw a hippo playing with our baby elephant from earlier.
So all in all we saw more stuff in the clouds than a lot of people would see at a trip to the zoo. It was awesome, imaginative and fun. And it was a great way to spend some time on the road.
I will post a little bit about the family gathering tomorrow perhaps. That was actually quite a bit better than the drive to it. But I want to post more on that when I have the time to, and right now, I don't have that kind of time.
