Tuesday, December 13, 2011

You Can Find It In the Rain Forest

$15 for a salad called "Jungle Chop". It's usually something I would decline, but we were at Rain forest Cafe. My sister had previously visited saying that it's not like it was when we were kids- that the magic of it had run out as we got older. Not so. Perhaps it's because I'm still young or perhaps it's because it was exactly the the way I'd remembered it. The random rainstorms, beating of a gorilla's chest, and the random squawking of tropical parrots. The only difference is that we were aware that zebras and gorillas don't live in the same habitat and that tropical parrots wouldn't be living with the elephants. There was fog and dripping water flowing down plastic rocks behind our table and a giant aquarium with "unicorn fish" swimming about. I was entranced, it was truly great to be back and the elephants felt like what I'd imagine a real elephant would feel like.
It was nice to have some of it back, some of the familiar things that come back when people do. I don't think ADELE's "Set Fire to the Rain" was ever more appropriately paired with Daniel Powter's "Bad Day" than in a wet parking lot in Irvine. Even when people claim my sassy Persian friend has become a bro, I can find the real him somewhere within the first few minutes. When we see each other after long partings, I think of when two dogs meet each other- tails wagging, jumping all over each other and barking with excitement. It's like that. Things can stay okay if we let them. It doesn't all go wrong when we part for some amount of time in between these kinds of times. Mix that with the Christmas that's in the air and we can fill the silence and the missing pieces until those missing pieces come home too. We await!

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