Road Trip to Canada Last Day (day 5)

April 18th, 2009

All rightie…..for those of you who are following the story of my trip to Canada, here are the last few hours. And only 1 more (semi) calamity occurred! Well, 2 but that’s it!

So we left Anderson, Indiana and I drove this time down the interstate. The speed limit is 70, so that’s what I was driving so it was too late to avoid it by the time I saw the 5 foot long piece of mangled up metal lying in my lane. BAM! Are you kidding me? Seriously? Like I can’t just finish up the short 2.5 hour drive to home without SOMETHING happening? Calamity? Nope. I pulled over and Thea jumped out to check the tires and much to my surprise none of them were flat. Whew! Cause I just KNEW one was going to be flat, right? Cause that’s how I roll, right? haha

Onward we go. We arrived back at the car rental place and unloaded everything out of the car into my husband’s car and returned the rental car. Then we returned back to my house and unloaded everything again out of the car and into the house. I immediately went for my camera for some reason that I now cannot remember, and realized it was gone. CALAMITY! My whole trip was on the memory card, so I was devastated that I couldn’t find this camera with all my Canada pictures on it. We looked everywhere, in all my bags, in all Thea’s bags, out in my husband’s car, called the rental place to see if it was in that car. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. I was so BUMMED I can’t even tell you!

Then my husband walks out to his car and 30 seconds later walks back into the house with my camera. Are you kidding me? It was in the front seat! HA I had been looking in the back because I thought it may have fallen out of my bag in the back, but I must have had it in my hand and laid it down in the front seat on our way home where it had slipped underneath the arm rest, which of course I never thought to raise that up to look underneath. My husband is a lifesaver! He saved the day! haha

And I think that’s the end of my Canada trip. I will be making a new blog post and sharing with you all the companies that helped me so maybe the next time you’re scrapbook shopping you’ll see something and say, “Hey, that’s the nice company that helped Corinna. I’m gonna buy their products!” Thanks for reading about my adventure!

**Edited to add:

As I write this, it is Friday, February 5, 2010.

Anita left this world today at 10 a.m. I received an e-mail from her friend Becky, who is the reason I met Anita in the first place. I am beyond shocked.

I am in a state of disbelief.

I can’t stop crying. Mostly because I just finished the little mini scrapbook for her children that I showed here about a week or so ago and it’s still sitting in the box on my desk waiting to be mailed. The title “Remember” that I chose for the cover really strikes a chord with me now. I thought of her for days while I made that little book. Along with the journal that I made last October for Anita to write in. Sitting here in the box. There’s a card in the box that I wrote to Anita and a worry stone that I had bought her a long time ago. And the 2-page layout made by Mandy Douglass from the Creating Keepsakes magazine article about us in February of last year. I always felt that she should have it instead of me, so it was in the box also. I regret that I never sent it.

Meeting her was a huge experience in my life, and so many people who read this blog (and who don’t) helped me to make the trip to Canada and make my dream to meet Anita and deliver her scrapbooks that we made for her a reality. I have always been so grateful for each one of you, but now even more so. You will never ever know what it meant to me, to see all of you strangers to me (and some not) come together and donate your money and bid on my auctions so that I could make the trip happen. Making those scrapbooks for Anita and making that trip and meeting her in person and corresponding with her via e-mail and phone before and after that trip…..the whole experience……is something that changed me as a person inside. It’s impossible to explain. I will never ever forget all of you doing that.

I will never forget HER. I am so saddened by the loss of her, I can’t even tell you. There are no words.

Anita, you will always be a part of my story.

To read days 1-4 of this trip, click on the links below.