Leaving my tea cup

2.9.14

     After the balloon release, we were free to go. A few of us loitered around for a little while, but eventually we needed to get on the road. The retreat was about 3 hours away from where we live, plus I missed Alex and was excited to hear all about his weekend and tell him about mine.
      I was about 15 minutes away when I stopped and thought, "When did I last see my tea cup?" You better believe I pulled over in the middle of hill country in somebody's dirt driveway and started digging through all of my things. I couldn't find it anywhere. I remembered having it that morning and drinking coffee out of it, but after that I didn't remember packing it or putting it anywhere special.
      I turned around. After all, it was the invite of the old cups that had made me sure that I would go to the retreat at all.
      I arrived as all the leaders were still packing up their cars with all the stuff that had decorated the main house and Prayer room for the past few days. I half walked/ran into the main room and looked around for my cup.
      "Hey Ames," said Sarah when she saw I was back. "What's up?"
      "I forgot my tea cup... and I don't see it here. I remember I double-checked the room, so I thought it had to be here, but I guess somebody else may have picked it up. Do you have any extra ones?" I had to ask. You see, at the very beginning of retreat they had told us that a bunch of the cups were broken in their flight down from Chattanooga, Tennessee, where Kellye lives.
       "There's a couple that were extra over on that table," she pointed to the check-in table. "Go pick one out!"
       "Are you sure those weren't accidentally left? I don't want to pick one up if somebody does what I just did and realizes it after about 15 minutes..." I said.
       She reassured me they were just extras, but I couldn't find one as awesome as the one I had loved on all weekend. So instead, I settled for this one:

Doesn't even have any pink on it.

         I realized later that I didn't even take a picture of my cute coral rimmed mug, so instead it'll just have to live on in my memory.