Usually I travel with a backpack, but decided on a little roller bag carry-on for this trip (being pregnant and all). Yesterday when I got to my hotel, there was just enough daylight left for me to go and get my groceries for the next few days (yay for microfridges!).
So when I started out on my (supposedly) easy walk to the (again supposedly) nearby grocery store, I didn't have a backpack to bring my groceries back in.
I've carried groceries in my trusty backpack in Australia, in Peru, in California. But it wasn't here for me in Washington.
What I did have was carry-on luggage on wheels.
As I walked my pregnant body up and down the hills around the Seattle suburbs, searching for the Safeway, I was pulling that bag behind me.
Better yet was after I had purchased my groceries and loaded up the luggage. Everything didn't quite fit in, so I had a grocery sack attached to the handle, and I began my return walk back to the hotel.
I couldn't help but think how much I looked liked and felt like a bag lady. Walking with my possessions down the street.
And then I heard some groceries fall out of the bag. I turned around, and said "get back in there bread!" Being appalled at how ludicrous and crazy I must have looked and sounded, I began laughing hysterically. Surely nobody thought a thing about a pregnant crazy lady talking to her bread, laughing like mad and pulling a suitcase around.
And then I saw a Taco Time (oh how I love you Taco Time). I just wheeled myself in and got a burrito. And ate it there. The whole thing just really made my day because of its ridiculousness.
