Last night after Vidroid went to bed the soldier and I got in the tub, it’s become a habit. He thinks all couples with children should do something like this by the way – make time to focus on just each other but anyway he was feeling frisky or something last night and apparently got a little careless…

“Yeah, P,” he said ready to launch into something. Some kind of story. “Spend all that time in the desert and you never even go see the Grand Canyon,” he said.

“What? I’ve been to the Grand Canyon,” I said. “Matter of fact I have flown all around inside it on a date! What the hell are you talking about, I’ve never been to the Grand Canyon. Yeah, babe! I went there on a date… on a blind date on a plane and not only that some Special Forces guy was there too. How could I forget,” I said with a snort. “Better yet how could you forget,” I said with a stare. “You’ve heard that story.”

“So you did see the Grand Canyon,” he said all… disturbed.

“Yeah! Hell yeah… with some SF guy too, so how about that? You know you can’t fly planes inside the Grand Canyon anymore so what were you going to do? Tell me about how you’ve been around the world. Oh P! I have been around the world! I have been around the world twice and poor, Elsa. She’s never even seen the Grand Canyon. Yeah, that SF guy was something else. I’d have been… I think I was 19 or 20 years old then which means you’ just left me.”

“You mean you kicked me out.”

“Yeah, sounds like you had just left so you went and got married – Jumped off that cliff and meanwhile I was flying around the Grand Canyon with two men. Yeah, that one guy was SF. He was all musclebound and stuff, I wonder if you know him? He’d be a little older than you but you probably do know him. I don’t know why I meet so many Special Forces people… men, I mean when I don’t live in that part of the country. But I do meet them and they do like me and you can imagine why I guess. It’s cause I’m me,” I said. “Well, you know how I am. I am pretty much cut out…”

He stared.

“I have pictures you know. Yeah, I snapped pictures. We stopped for lunch at Oak Creek Canyon. I have pictures of the rock climbers… we were flying around real close to them so we could wave. Now what did you want to tell me again about how I’ve never been anywhere..?”