A Moment Like That

Some of the time it was sunny and the skies were blue. Some of the time it was grey and the wind was blustery. But at night the stars came out.

There we were, in the hot water with the junipers and pines around us, staring up at the star-strewn sky. For an hour the water bubbled around us and our brains unwound and unwound. For an hour we sat there more relaxed by the minute gazing up thru the branches out into the night. And when the clouds closed in, the moon tried to chase them away.

After our hour was up, on our way back to our room at the foot of the hill, we grabbed a half-pint of ice cream, I hoping that it wouldn't be too rich, Trudy thinking she'd not eat much, which was fine with me.

Later, as we lay back on our pillows, weak with relaxment, we shared that half-pint (in unequal portions), and my eyes rolled back in my head, convinced that there would be no moment just like that again.

There probably won't.

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a decadent visit to the Ten Thousand Waves spa
Santa Fe, NM

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