a promise

a promise

Right after recording this, I got in my car to watch it and it started to drizzle a little. (I had just barely commented on how gorgeous the weather was and 2 minutes later it’s raining?!) At the end of the video, I looked to my left at beams of sunlight through the clouds and no exaggeration the most brilliant and full rainbow I have ever seen. As in I jumped back out of the car at warp speed to get a photo. This one doesn’t do it near justice, it was so much better in person. Maybe I should’ve kept the moment all to myself, but I really felt like sharing it. Here’s my best attempt:

All this sounds perfectly hokey right? Drive all the way to Alaska from the east coast, make a video on the anniversary of the death of my friends that my blog is dedicated to, and as soon as I’m done recording, out of the sky appears a big fat gorgeous rainbow like a sign from the heavens?

So it might sound odd that I’m laughing right now, but I am. I know exactly what that rainbow was. See, Maria and Brandy had huge hearts, but both had these rough and tumble outer shells. There was never much of any sniffling or being all gushy and girly for them. Of the three of us, that was my job. I know that they saw me making this video today all teary-eyed and nostalgic, so they sent that rainbow to jokingly punch me in the arm like they did years ago when I’d be gushy and girly. That sign today was their way of saying to me; “Sheesh Peacock!, you’re such a freakin’ softie! We are just fine! Stop cryin’ over us ya fool and go have some fun for pete’s sakes!”

That’s exactly what that rainbow was.

As you wish ladies.

So, I left their lollipops for them, and drove down the road with a big fat smile on my face happily eating mine:

Thanks you two. How could I have expected anything less? 🙂