Are you sure?

My luck is changing, everything is coming up roses for a change. Knock wood.

Here is a fun story. I may have told it before, forgive me and my addled brain if you have read this before...

October 2004. We are in Hawaii. Everyone in the family got to do a couple of things that they really wanted to do. Mandy got to swim with dolphins and ride out in a boat into the ocean and see hundreds of dolphins frolicking in the surf. I got to go for sunset walks along the beach, boogie boarding, and an afternoon sunbathing on a lovely beach. All Jeff wanted was to hike to the top of Diamond Head Mountain.

On our way there, we got into a heated discussion about which way to go. Jeff had been there before, he thought he saw something on a sign, I was reading a map, he wouldn't listen to me. I wouldn't listen to him. It got ugly. For some reason my sweet easy going Jeff turns into a monster when he is behind the wheel. I just hate that. I feel like he is not trusting me. I think that having navigated our family through dozens of foreign countries would have taught him that I can indeed read a map. I would think that he would trust my map reading abilities, but he does not. Which seriously ticks me off. Every time he is driving and I am navigating he is second guessing my instructions. And he second guesses me very loudly and very rudely. You would think after all these years I would be used to it. I am not.

On this trip I got so mad, I insisted he turn the car around and take me back to the hotel. I refused to hike Diamond Head. And we never discussed it again.

Until...

Sunday night, we were watching the first episode of the new season of the Amazing Race. Jeff says to me, I really want to do the Amazing Race. I say to him, not with me your not, I would kill you. He says, "I haven't forgotten Diamond Head." I say, "nether have I."

For the sake of our marriage I don't think having cameras and an audience would help us to deal with our traveling issues. Anyone interested in being Jeff's partner. He runs marathons, does triathlons, has traveled all over the world, he is sweet as pie, easy going and fun. You just can't be sensitive when he asks you 27 times if you are sure you are supposed to turn here. Are you sure? I thought I saw a sign.

Men...