did you shower today? kind of personal, yes i know. but did you take a shower today? you probably did. it’s kind of like breathing. you just do it and don’t really think about it.
that is until you can’t do it.
for the first six years that i knew dan, we would make the drive from michigan to iowa to celebrate easter with his family. we’d stay three or four days at a hotel conveniently located in town close to dan’s parents house. it was a cute place – clean, a pool, even free pop tarts at breakfast and it was pretty accessible.
well , at least for three or four days. but by day five, despite my efforts to wash up in the bathroom sink or go in town to have my hair washed and coiffed, i needed to shower.
only problem was that this cute little hotel did not have a roll-in shower, which is a necessity for me because i can no longer stand . so it’s absence meant that we had to keep our trip short. just a quick visit. and fortunately everyone understood. we were pretty content but our visit always went by way too fast.
however, this year was different. we wanted to and needed to stay almost a full week. that meant that we would have to stay at a different hotel. it’s not like i could forego a shower for a whole week! we had to find a hotel in a bigger city than monticello. one with a roll-in shower. one twenty-five or thirty minutes from his parents. bye bye pool, pop tarts and a convenient location.
or so i thought.
but dan had a kind of crazy idea “see jennifer, there’s this camp not very far away from my parents house. it’s a camp that would be accessible. no, really accessible…roll-in shower accessible.”
heck, if there was any place in town where i could take a shower, a real shower, i’d be game. to be honest i was a little skeptical but i was game. so dan made a few phone calls. then we checked out the camp’s website and finally, we packed our bags and off to a camp in iowa we went.
camp courageous was no regular camp. it was amazing! beautiful scenery, friendly staff, great rooms and most important, totally equipped with a roll-in shower. in fact, there were six such showers in our cabin. my cup runeth over with cleanliness!
and to be exact, april 11 was the day of my first real shower in iowa for over six years. which is why it was such a glorious day!