Sailing From Home

January 2, 2000

I woke up in a huge four post bed and marveled at the size of the bed, the large room and the exquisite furniture. I literally had to jump out of the tall bed and stumbled down the hall in awe of the many rooms. I fanally found my way to the breakfast room which I thought was a waste of space, I didn't understand why you couldn't just eat in one room. We had a full breakfast which was very different for me considering my usual breakfast was cereal. There were pancakes, waffles, eggs, sausage, and bacon. After breakfast I wandered into one of the many rooms where there was a player piano, after getting over the fear of the ghost playing the piano and having it explained to me that the piano ran all by its self I was in a trance I stared at the open pannal and the whirling machine inside and watched the keys move and pretended to play the many songs like an expert. After I recovered from the excitement with a short nap, we walked outside to Main street and Moore which was named after our family. There was a large tree entirely covered with little light pink flowers.

Even though I was only four I remember this so well because that was the only memory of my grandfather, he died the week after we left. I regret that I didn't have very much time with him. I would have been able to see him more often if he didn't live in north carolina. When my grandmother and him divorced he moved there which was before I was born, but our entire family lived here at the time. He went back there because when they were married they all lived there in one of those smalltowns where everyone knew everyone else and he ran the factory which provided most of the jobs. Another words he was the big fish in the small pond. My other grandparents live in another country so I see them once every two years when they come to visit. Everytime they leave its very emotional because I don't know if i'll ever see them again. I don't think I could ever move too far from the rest of my family because you never know what could happen tomorrow.