Such is life......

Well Jimmy and I just returned from Nautical Nights in the Finger Lakes of NY.

If it where not for Nautical Nights and it's owner I would have lost my mind this weekend. Let me start from the beginning.....

So, it was Friday Night and I worked at packing up our suit case for our trip the next morning. I wanted to get a bunch of cleaning done but Jimmy subggested that I pack first and clean later because if I get tired I can stop and we'll be packed.

lol....how well he already knows my limits.

On top of the already fatigued feeling that I get in evenings I now have Hay Fever worst that I have had in years! What the Hep C isn't taking out of me the hay fever is.

So low and behold I packed and started in on changing the bed. By the time I got the bed done I was ready to climb into it. So I called down to my loving husband (who was working at the Bar just as he does every Friday night) to tell him I was done for the evening and that I was going to climb into bed, I was exhausted.

At around 10:30 while I slept, Jimmy had come upstairs and left an envelope on my purse from the guy who commissioned me to paint for the retiring State Policeman. In the envelope was $450.00 cash. In my purse was my digital camera ready for our trip the next morning, $250.00 in cash, 4 credit cards, my license, my Social Security Card, my Daughters 2 uncashed checks for approx. $400.00 total, A prescription for Zanax and Heart Medication, mine and Jimmy's car keys and stuff that I can't even remember.

At 3:30 am my Husband came upstairs after closing the Bar and was in the shower when I woke up. I thought I'd take a heart pill since I was having fluttering and I went for my purse that was no longer there.

We were robbed! And were robbed while I slept less than 15 feet away from my purse!

They had broken in through a locked door, stood outside my bedroom, opened the envelope and walked out with my purse, everything in it and went out to Jimmy's car to riffle through it.

Cops came, took a report and left.

I couldn't sleep, so I went through our video surveillance camera's and I found him! Hopefully the cops can use the pictures. They might not be the clearest...but I'm hoping....

So the next morning, after calling in credit cards and securing the home front, we took off 5 hours later than we wanted.....but we escaped none the less.

My very best friend, Susan had a script for Zanax and the drug store had a refill for my heart meds. Susan is and has been been the Sister I never knew.

So with everything settled for the moment we set off for our 1st anniversary.

3-1/2 hours later we were driving down the very steep road in the woods to the Nautical Nights.
Jimmy and I had both fallen with this place last year when we went to the Finger Lakes for a short Honey Moon before our Honey Moon cruise to Bermuda. It's a piece of heaven on Lake Seneca. Not to lessen the beauty of Lake Seneca....but if it were not for the owners the place would not be the same. They make Nautical Nights into heaven. They match the property as much as the property matches the beauty of the lake. http://www.nauticalnights.com/

When it was time to leave I couldn't help but cry.

Since the robber took my digital camera I'll have to wait for a disposable camera to be developed before posting any pictures of our weekend.

Jimmy and I have made a promise to each other that we will go back every year for our anniversary. We made that pack last year and this is the second year that we've signed a bottle to place on a shelf along with so many other bottles from people before us.

If ever you find yourself anywhere near Nautical Nights, just North of Watkins Glen, you will be cheated if you do not stay at this place. I can't even begin to describe it....

So now we're home.....back to reality. You may have heard of Hazleton PA or our Mayor Louie Barletta and his Immigration Act for illegal immigrants....believe every word that you hear out of his mouth. The Hispanic gangs are taking our neighborhoods over, Crime is out of control and our City is out of control and in need of drastic measures. This is the second time in 3 years that I've been burglarized. If you haven't heard......... look up Hazleton and Loui Barletta on google....you'll see what I mean. This is a City fighting to survive!

Any way....I have to tell you that I've learned a couple lessons through this weekend. The first is one I already knew through things that have been horrible in my life -

Everything happens for a reason.

The second was told to me be neighbor after I told her about the break in on Friday.....

Place what happened on a scale of 1 to 10. 10 being death. What happened was maybe a 7.

Had I woken up that night it may have moved up the scale.

And I realized by myself as I sat this Monday morning watching the Sunrise at 6 am. I realized for every bad thing that's happened to me there's always been something twice as beautiful that followed. Sometimes it was days or months later........this time it was Nautical Nights, My time with Jimmy and the sunrise on Sunday and Monday morning while my most precious and wonderful Husband slept a few feet away.

Life is good....even when the ugly finds a way to creep in.

And still the Summer continues.