Dorthy, you're not in Rexburg anymore!

Ok, so Mike & I haven't been out together on a date without Kade since he was born. We decided that we would go out on Friday the 13th! BAD idea! We are rarely together so we pretty much worry about ourselves. As we headed out for the night we get downstairs and Mike asks me if I grabbed the keys. No, did you? Nope, sure didn't! We were so excited to be together that we spaced everything else! I thought he would get keys, he thought I would get keys. So, that's right no spare keys anywhere and both sets are locked in the house. LONG story short, the front desk won't let us use their spare key unless it's an "emergency."  We call the locksmith & they said it would be about 95 dollars. Really expensive but what choice did we have? Long time later the locksmith shows up, tells us a very phony story, blah, blah, blah, he drills the lock, we're in and then he tells us the total! I sort-of hear what he says, and am like WHAT did you say??!! He tells me he'll take off 50 buck if we pay in cash! HA- who has that kind of cash around!? Needless to say, I nearly wet myself! We pay the little thief because really what are the options? Whatever price you are thinking, I'm sure you're WAY below. Multiply that number by at least 3! So basically Mike & I sat around the rest of the night in severe depression not saying a word because we were still in shock. Saturday we were still in shock but what can we do?  So we try to get over it. Later we thought lets get out of the house, we've had a rough weekend, so we head to the pool...BAD idea #2! Lets try this again. Did you get the keys? NO. You're joking right? Nope sure not a joke! Hilarious right!! (I think that we should ditch the going out idea all together!) There is NO way I can call a locksmith again and give him my other arm & leg. NO WAY! Mike along with the entire 19th floor are trying to bust the door down, drill the lock, you name it we tried it! All to no avail. I was getting ready to repel from the 20th floor onto our back porch! no joke! We ended up calling a locksmith again, he got us in then with our desperate pleas only charged us a leg. After all that I would have called it an "emergency!" Monday morning comes and we were written up Saturday night because people in our building love to complain! I talked to the office Monday morning to straighten things out. The plot THICKENS! The office was on my side. They tell me because "you obviously are naive" they will help me out. They made a few calls, chewed a few people out yadda yadda. The men we call about Friday's service say they are religious Jews. Apparently Friday starts the Sabbath and they don't work Friday's!! WHAT? OK, so who did my service? Good question! I'm still in the middle of figuring this all out! But in the meantime, Leslie the office lady gives me some advice and then says don't you have a spare key somewhere? Well let me think about this. As I'm thinking I come to my conclusion...

 I have never had to worry about locking myself out of my house because I have NEVER in my life locked my door! (I still don't lock the door, it locks itself! haha)  At one point Ryan & Sandy (mainly Sandy) were so concerned for us because we didn't lock the door that they stole our laptop to try and teach us a lesson. We didn't even notice it was gone! Haha. Even if I locked a door I could always break through a window or find some way in. Leslie tells me that "people like you" don't exist down here. Even if you go up north where you think there are "people like you," they are all trying to (excuse my French this is what she said)   screw you! You can't trust anyone! ...ok, I get in! I'm NOT in Rexburg anymore! It still hasn't hit me, but this is what everyone keeps telling me. Someday I WILL move back somewhere I don't have to worry about locking my front door! Mike & I learned some very expensive lessons this weekend! We will never repeat because we've made copies and taped them in "secret hiding places" all over our building! Just pray the cleaning crew doesn't find them and throw them away! So that was a very long boring story but I thought if you were having a bad day it might cheer you up! There are so many smart people in this world and I am currently at the TOP of the list! I still go to bed at night dreaming of all the possibilities I could have done with the money that is long gone... flown home probably 5 times, gone on a VERY nice cruise twice, rented a helicopter then jumped out onto my back porch to unlock the door myself, gone on the biggest shopping spree ever! Thrown the money out to sea & watch it drift away, use it as bait to catch a shark on a fly rod. TEAR, I still cry myself to sleep at night. I will spare you the exact amount because I would hate for you to have to get up and change your pants after reading it. For real. Wish it was a joke. So, awful nightmare, please, please, never come back.  I miss all my amazing, sweet, wonderful, fun, safe, "people like me" from Rexburg! Goodbye good 'ol West Tisbury days! I love and miss you all! Please come visit so I can have "people like me" around!