Angel: “We only have two hours left until I have to check out of my room. Check-out is noon.”
Mark: “Let’s go eat.”
Angel: “NOOOOOooooo!!! Let’s go to the POOLS!!! You’re ALWAYS hungry. Here, I brought food and drinks.” (Mark opens a jar of big stuffed gourmet olives I brought. Then he opens a Mood drink I brought. My ice chest is full of health goodies. He finds my Pine Nuts. Pineal gland food. He’s impressed.)
Mark: “You listen to me. You actually listen to me.”
Angel: “My body is becoming like yours. It feels different, strong, really strong. I put good food and drinks into it all the time, constantly. That’s why I have all this stuff. I just grabbed it before I left. It’s not just food, I have lots and lots of health supplements I take. I just bought 3 more for $200. Let me find them…” (I look at my Amazon account on my phone. I find it and hand him my phone. He starts reading…) “Sometimes I’ll find a supplement that sounds really good and I’ll decide to buy it… and then I forget WHY I liked it. What does it say? I think those three are to bind toxins, remove toxins, then probiotics to renew your system, put good things in.”
(I just thought of this - that’s exactly how our spirits work.)
Angel: “Here’s our plan. I’m going to go to those private pools in the women’s locker room. I’ll get in the cold plunge pool like you told me to. Then I’ll get into the hot. Just like you told me. You can’t go in there. So you go do whatever you think will be best for your health, upstairs, in the sauna rooms. (Yesterday he picked the charcoal room, the salt room, and the red light lounge chairs as his favorites, health-wise.) “You need that, you’ve been really stressed…”
Mark: “That last plane ride hurt my body. I could SMELL the jet fuel the entire trip.”
Angel: “So see, here’s your chance, go do whatever you think will help the most. I don’t want to do the saunas (there’s a dozen different kinds, we’re at Spa Castle near Dallas), I like the hot pools. Those make ME feel the best. When I’m finished in the women’s private pools area I’ll either be in this big outside hot tub (I point, we’re outside) OR the cave (my favorite) OR back inside in those pools Lai (my 6 year old granddaughter, he trains) and I love, the first ones. If I’m not in any of those 3 then I’ve gone back to my room. We’ll check me out at noon then go eat at Pappadeaux.”
Mark: “Pappadeaux sounds WAY better than IHop. Ok.”
Angel: “It’s my favorite restaurant, there’s one right down the road, where we ate before, and I was already reading the menu when you said “let’s go eat at IHop.”
So that’s what we do. Except, when I finish in the private women’s locker area pools and get my phone out of my locker I see Mark’s been texting.
Mark: “I got a call and have to go work. I have to be there by 1:00. Sorry!!!”
I find Mark and we check out of the Spa. He gives me a hug then rushes to get to a job. “Go enjoy your room till noon then text me from the road so I know you’re ok. Bring Laileigh next time!”
Angel: “I will. I’m going home the back roads way so I can go see the Capernaum television studios. Gigi said she might be doing something there. Kevin Sorbo was there recently. Gigi worked with him on “Fire From Below.” Plus I thought I’d check it out for some friends. Ok, great to see you! See you soon!”
Mark: “Send me that video you showed me of Lai getting her brown belt. I’m proud of her! Later!”
On the way home I go by Capernaum Studios, which is closed, but I drive around and see all the buildings you can see from the outside. One step at a time. Then I head for one of my other favorite places, Mineral Wells & the Baker Hotel, a health spa hotel from a hundred or more years ago with hot mineral water springs, I love those, being restored. A bit later I see a sign for “Billy the Kid” Museum. I stop and google directions. It’s closed too but I take pics of the outside. Those will be good for the Texas stories I write, “Texas Tales from a Lone Star.” You can find over 300 of my short-stories plus my videos and books on my website. xo
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Written September 29, 2024 at 9:38 am
