No Mah Jongg Emergencies

When someone calls me desperate to get into one of my Mah Jongg Classes I always say there is no such thing as a Mah Jongg emergency. Today my class for the Coral Bay Club, which is being held at the Carteret County Culinary School while the club is being rebuilt, had an emergency drill.

The life flight helicopter was making a scheduled landing at the school so that the emergency training class of teenagers could get a look at it, along with some ambulances and fire trucks.

We loved just taking a break to watch it come in and go on and get our class photo with the helicopter. It was not a Mah Jongg emergency, but a few students to suggested that I could use a helicopter to travel between classes. I was not opposed to the idea, only the cost.

I could have used a copter this week as I have been teaching class in Morehead in the mornings and then again in New Bern in the evenings. I have been getting back to my friend Jill’s house in Atlantic beach at 9:30 each night. Tonight she waited to have dinner with me which was so sweet.

We have been staying up too late every night and before I left for New Bern she said, “Tonight we are not going to stay up talking so late.” Here it is 11:30 and I am just writing my blog because we stayed at the table on the porch over an hour after we said, it’s time to go to bed.

I think we could stay up all night talking, but we have that pesky class in the morning. Sleep really gets in the way of having fun. I still need to have some wits about me to teach tomorrow or we might have a real Mah Jongg emergency.