This morning started out so promising ... Steve and I had decided last night that we would head over to The Original Pancake House this morning for breakfast. Yummy breakfast, chocolate chip pancakes for Steve, and I chose the delicious strawberry waffles. Fabulous!!! We were having such a good time that we then decided to go for a drive to Redwood City to check out the beautiful Maserati QuattroPorte sedans at the Ferrari dealership. You know, dream a little and think of what we would do if we ever won the lottery, having a good time. Then as we all know, one must come back to reality so we headed back home to the opposite of a dream ....
We opened the garage door and immediately wondered why my car had it's lights on ... why the exterior and interior doors were both open when they are ALWAYS closed. Yes, you guessed right, turned out we came home to a burglarized house!!! And it turns out that we probably interrupted them with the sound of the garage door opening. They took all our electronic goodies ... laptops, cameras, cell phones, and what's worse is that Steve's wedding band was sitting on the counter, GONE!! It belonged to his grandfather and was probably 100 years old. That's what hurts the most. Everything else are just material possessions and easily replaceable. Well, and all our work information that was stored on our laptops are now gone, not replaceable either. Luckily, Steve's computer is backed up at his work, and I may have a few CDs with some of my swimwear designs. But I didn't back-up photos .. most of my photos were stored in the computer. I guess this is a lesson to me, that I should have transfered them to flickr already.
Bottom line is that I know that Steve and I were lucky that nothing bad happened to us, that we're safe. But I still feel shaky, still feel violated and upset at the people who decided that it was easier to steal from others than to work hard to buy these things themselves.
