Reflection Friday – Bridges Crossed, and other excitements like the Red Dog Diner

So, this reflection happened in the not-to-distant past, by which I mean yesterday.

I’m sure most people who know me know that I am scared of heights. Terribly afraid to the point of near insanity. Just last night I have an incredibly graphic nightmare about being in a plane that had an appointment with the ground and was hurrying to make it on time. I don’t like tall buildings, elevators, planes, cliffs, tall staircases, nor bridges. Planes are the worst, but bridges are a close second.

So today I had my training for the elections, which is across the river in Lethbridge. I got off at 4, and I was about 3 minutes away from the giant bridge (see inset) that attaches the two sides of Lethbridge to each other. I hate even driving across this monstrosity, but today I thought “oh hell, let’s walk across it!”. So I did. It took me the better part of a god damn hour to do so. Mind you the actual pedestrian bridge over the water (the scary part) only took 5-10 minutes, it was the not-so-bridgey-part that took so long. The fucking think is like a 45 degree incline for a kilometer once you get back to the West side of town, shit! I thought I was so badass with my 30 minute incline-level-6 jogs I do most days at the gym, but this was like 40 minutes incline-level-12!

Regardless, I crossed that bridge. It was scary, I know that sounds lame, but giant concrete structures extending high over water/land scare me like only planes and zombies can. And possibly my mother. I made myself stop in the mid point where there is a look out, but I quickly had enough of that, and I made the last half of the trip fighting the urge to run (in the back of my mind, bridges are ALWAYS collapsing behind me).

So there. I did something that scared the bejesus out of me today, and gave me a killer workout to boot. I also got #245 -work in an election off to a good start.

I also went to the Red Dog Diner last night with Adam which was one of the things on my “to do list for Lethbridge” that I made a while back. It’s located at 4th Ave and 6th St in downtown Lethbridge, with lots of great parking. The hours are fantastic, being open until at least midnight every day. The menu is sooo large, it’s hard to choose between smoked meat sanwiches, all the hot dog varieties, burgers, dill pickles, and the 13 or so kinds of poutine they have. I’m a regular poutine kind of gal, but you can get poutine with chicken and peas, or bacon and tons of other weird things. The poutine is a bit pricey (but worth it when you see the layered cheese *drool*) but it’s not going to run over $20 for two people to get more than enough to fill them up. It was SO delicious! 69 cents for TWO HOT DOGS. Dreamy.

Also, tomorrow morning I hope to be booking a trip to Montreal and Toronto for June with my buddy Chris. I hope it all works out!! I’m not going to sleep tonight, I’m so anxious for the o-k! on it!