Learning new things after all these years...

Sometime, when you’ve known someone for a long time, it’s hard to imagine that they will tell you something about themselves that will make you stop and say, “Huh, I never knew that about you.” 

Our trip to Playa El Palmar was in the middle of the rainy season in Panama so it was expected that there could be a chance of rain…However, where it is located is in a “dry arc” so it can be raining all around you in nearby towns and you can still stay dry.  On the first afternoon, while Sutton napped, Luke and I were laying around the pool watching a family playing on the beach.

Yay!!! We have a sleeping baby!!! Time to relax!!

“You see those clouds, that’s a storm forming.” Luke said.    The clouds were white and fluffy and the sky was blue…”How do you know that?” I asked.   “Well I used to be really scare of lightning so when I was a kid I did lot of research.” He said very matter-of-factly. 

Now I have known Luke since I was 15 and this was all news to me…”Really, how did that affect you?” I choked out in between giggles. 

“Ash, this is serious.  I was really scared that lightning would strike me.  I had to look it up and I even read some articles about it!”

**Now as a side note, you should remember that when Luke was a kid, research meant that you really had to look things up in an encyclopedia and visit a library.  This means that he must have really had a strong desire to do all that  research when he was ten.

Maybe I was still delirious from traveling, but I couldn’t help myself….I was laughing hysterically at the idea of my husband asking his parents to take him to the library to research lightning when he was ten (what a dork)!  Then he looked at me very seriously and said “I know what to do f you ever get hit by lightning.  Do you want to know”

In between tears and laughter, I chocked out a “yes” and he said “Well, you get down on one knee…” Before he finish I interrupted, “So basically you Tebow it!?!?!?!” BLAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! How come you’ve never told me this…We have to go on vacation before you want to share these things with me? Blahahaha!!!” I couldn’t help but imagine a ten-year-old Luke practicing his lightning survival tactics in his back yard on a sunny day so he would be prepared.

Now this might be one of those things that might not be that funny to other people or maybe you had to be there to see the humor, but it still makes me smile to know that there are things that we don’t know about each other after almost 15 years.  Also, as a bonus, it makes me laugh to think that my husband was a weather nerd when he was ten…why couldn’t he just go sleep with his parents during a storm like normal kids?

Shortly after my crash course in lightning and storm survival, a small shower rolled through for about twenty minutes.  Lying in a hammock and watching the rain is a definite recipe for relaxation.