Saturday, November 11, 2006

Back To 1985

"Don't bet your future, on one roll of the dice
Better remember, lightning never strikes twice
Please don't drive eighty eight, don't wanna be late again

So take me away, I don't mind
But you better promise me, I'll be back in time
Gotta get back in time
Gotta get back in time
Get me back in time"

- Huey Lewis & The News, 1985


One summer long ago, I came down from Oregon to visit my Mom's family in Southern California. I spent all day, every day, shooting baskets, playing ping pong, inventing roller coasters and conspiring with my cousins Robby and Andy.

Every day, that is, except Thursday. Every Thursday, Grandpa took me and Robby with him to the Christian Business Men's Association breakfast at a local Carrows before he dropped us off at his church for the youth group beach trip.

But one Thursday, Grandpa took all three of us to Universal Studios to ride the Studio Tour Tram.


We lifted the A-Team Van.



We posed with the shark.


Some days we wish we could go back in time and change what ever we may have done wrong. But then we might have had to miss the sweetness of a day like that day back in 1985.