House Hunting and Getting Away From the Storm

I'm not sure how the dream started up, but eventually I came to realize that I was house hunting in Virginia. I showed up at Steve and Janet's (parents of Robert and Ryan, some kids my mom used to babysit) house, but they had cleaned it up and out, and it was for sale. I knocked and went in, and Janet was showing some other people around. I think she was showing Dick and Virginia around (some friends of Grandmamma's from Pleasant Valley Church), but she said to feel free to look around.

I noticed that it was pretty dark (no lights were on) and that everything was in dark wood tones. But it wasn't nice wood. It was like cheap dark and rough cabinetry from the 70s. I went around and looked in the kitchen, and eventually wound up in the basement. There was a pool table down there. I played a little bit of pool, but I think that Dick kept somehow distracting me or getting in my way.

I think that mom may have also shown up to look at the house, and I think I wound up leaving with her, because I had walked there originally. When we got back to mom's house, there were a lot of people there. It was gray and rainy out, and it looked like there was a massive storm coming. I'm not sure of the direction it was coming from, though. I just know that it seemed to be getting colder out, and so we wound up going inside.

It seems that there was a lot of preparation going on for the storm. A bunch of people were inside that I knew: Mom, Aunt Irene, Eric, Matthew (brothers), Ed (from Mercedes), Anita (from school), and some others that I can't remember. There was a total of about maybe about 15 or 20 people running around and doing stuff.

Something happened, and I wound up getting kicked out. I'm not sure if mom did it or not. I just know that I suddenly had to leave. Then funny thing was that I had to put on my swimming trunks, and I went outside. It was now night time out. There was something about the number of us that had been kicked out in that we were supposed to represent various monsters. Someone was/had a toy version of Godzilla. That's about the only one I remember, but that's how it was supposed to be for each of us.

Anywho, just beyond where the cars were supposed to be parked (but they weren't) the entire "orchard" was now an ocean. The water stretched on forever, and we were supposed to swim away to somewhere else. We got in and started, but none of us were swimming very quickly. I'm not sure, but I think that it was shallow enough that I was actually walking along the bottom of this "ocean". Others that weren't as tall as me, though, had to actually swim for it. Some of us seemed to be swimming in pairs. Ed was helping out Vanessa (his wife), and there was another "couple" helping each other out.

Then, while I was going along (I was maybe 100 feet or so into it), I saw Anita in a black Speedo bikini. She was having a lot of trouble swimming because her left arm evidently wasn't working. I went over to her and put my arm around her to help out. She thanked me and told me that her arm had fallen asleep before getting in. I understood, and we kept going.

Then something about the big storm came up again, and we realized that we'd never make it to where we needed to go before it showed up, so we turned around and started heading back. Ed, Vanessa, Anita, and I were all about to the area where the cars are normally parked when we realized that we couldn't go back inside because we had been kicked out. We decided to turn a little left and go towards the corner of the orchard/ocean, and get out and go towards the parking area in front of the Big Barn.

I helped Anita out of the water, and we all decided to get into the vehicles there. One of them was the grey truck that I had wrecked when I was 16 (although in the dream I had no knowledge of ever wrecking it). It was now daytime out.

Ed, who now looked like the "dance competitor" in the Starsky and Hutch movie (almost like a young version of Ron Jeremy), was trying to get into my truck and set it up for himself. I told him no, he needed to go elsewhere, and he was trying to hang a red tee shirt in the door window and roll up the window so it would stay there. I knew that he had done that before, and it caused him to get a ticket from the police, so I was telling him that I didn't want to get a ticket, too, and that he needed to stop and get out of my truck. So he and Vanessa finally did, and Anita and I were around at the passenger side of the truck.

We were trying to decide who would be with who in which vehicle, and I said that I'd offer to let Anita stay in my truck with me. There seemed to be some snickering from Ed about it, but I glared at him and he shut up. Then we got into the truck, and there seemed to be some issue about needing to keep warm, as well as running our electronics while we were in there. I think I realized that Ed was putting up the red shirts in the windows to keep heat in, light out, and stuff like that.

I remember checking in some bag for our CD player and batteries, as well as a way to plug it in. We had food and drink as well. It was like we really were going to wait out this storm inside of the truck. (which is really a stupid thing to do) Then something came up, and we needed to drive the truck and leave. I know we got just a little way down the road (nearly where the Cherry Tree used to be at the corner of our yard) and I had to get out and go back up to the house for a bit. I went in, and there were still a lot of people in there, and mom seemed angry at me for returning. I got or said whatever it was that needed to be done, and then I left again.