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Back in Seattle. Got home last night around 9:30 (pac coast time, 11:30 central/kacie's body time). Amy U. was gracious enough to give me a ride home, even though my flight was about 20 minutes late and claiming my oversized bags took for-ev-er..

So today I went to the bookstore to get textbooks and Amy and I met for coffee. My books were only about $30 which has to be some kind of record. We walked to campus and sat in the quad. Amy brought Bella (her precocious shih tzu that loves to run around and chase squirrels and barks at midgetes...fyi). We drank coffee and let Bella run around off-leash. Then it started raining so we decided to walk back to Amy's in East Lake (not far) and then she was going to drive me home.

And then it happened.

We were walking back, and we were on the East Lake bridge. It's a 4-lane bridge with pedestrian/bike sidewalks on either side. It's pretty high over the lake and it's awesome because you can see the boats in the marina below as you walk -- there's only a waist-high rail so you can also see the awesome houses on the water. Anyway we were walking and talking about the movie I Am Legend (I was telling her about how the book ending is so much different than the movie ending, since it's a sci-fi graphic novel and just makes more sense), when a truck in one of the far lanes, driving toward us, starts to skid. It starts swerving and almost crashes into the car next to it, so it swerves back over the other way, and is at this point right next to where we are, now watching it frozen in place and horrified (Amy was frozen, I had grabbed her elbow and was about to throw us both out of the way, as soon as it was apparent which way the car was veering. Bella was fine - she was less than a foot tall and therefore protected by the curb). So it swerves toward the car, then away from it, comes into one of the near lanes, then starts spinning, like doing full 360 turns, and then eventually stops, with the driver still in the same lane, but facing the opposite way. Then he reverses, turns around, and drives off.

Okay, in all honesty, this scared the shit out of me. Car accidents are so scary to watch, but even more scary when you aren't in a car yourself, and are stading on a bridge really high over water with nothing between it and you but a waist-high railing. Seriously. Thank the jesus that there weren't any cars in the near lanes coming for the truck to run into because those would have definitely hit us. We were pretty freaked out. We went to her house and ate cheese and crackers and cantaloupe, then went to the grocery store. I mean, life has to go on. :) Anyway thanks to whoever's responsible for me not getting killed in a freak accident today because I totally owe you one.