Greetings earthlings

Cale had to go out of town today for work. He will be back home late tonight, but it will be a long day as he left the house at 4:45am. He doesn't have to travel very often which we are both thankful for. If he does have to travel somewhere for any length of time it has always worked out that I've gone along. So in the last few years, I have been able to spend a week in Monterrey, CA, we've been to LA a few times, Las Vegas, Virginia, Florida- not bad when you aren't paying!

Last night we were trying to remember the last trip that he took and realized it was several months ago. And that reminded us of a funny story...Cale was traveling with a co-worker and they had to rent a car to get to their meetings. He called me when they were on their way back to the airport, glad that their meetings were over ahead of schedule and they were going to be able to catch an earlier flight.

An hour later I got a phone call from a woman for the rental car company. She tried to explain that something had been left in the car. I asked what it was and my question was greeted with a long pause. She then tried to describe the item to me saying that it was white and had a part that said "Push" but when you pushed it nothing happened. The woman went on for two minutes in her description and then finally, in exasperation said, "I don't know what it is! It looks like it belongs in a spaceship!"

Trying not to laugh and completely mystified as to what she was talking about, I agreed that the best course of action was for her to return the missing piece of our spaceship to us. I called Cale to tell him and see if he had any idea what she was talking about. He was clueless so we would just wait and see what the item was.

The NEXT day, the mysterious item wound up in our mailbox. The woman from the rental company overnighted the package to us, because apparently she didn't want us to be stuck here on earth because we were missing a critical piece of our spaceship!

And the mystery item- a flashlight that is a part of the rental car (a Dodge Caliber). There is a picture of a flashlight on the flashlight right next to the "Push".