Missing

Usually I try to keep my blogs light and funny and I apologize because this one isn't. Last night we went to dinner at Oceana at the Marriott Long Wharf in Boston. As we walked in we noticed candles and flowers out front like a vigil. I asked the hostess what had happened. A young man and his girlfriend were staying at the hotel in February, he went outside to smoke around 2:20 in the morning, the hotel cameras show him leaving the hotel, and no one has ever seen him again. He was only 25. This story makes me immensely sad and reminds me of a similar story I had seen on 48 hours or Dateline or one of those shows. A young man in medical school was meeting his girlfriend and friends in the Bahamas for spring break and the night before he left to fly down he went to a bar in Columbus, OH. The bar was on the second floor and the cameras show him going up the escalator and entering the bar and he was never seen again. There is no footage of him leaving the bar. I saw the same thing on another show where a young woman went to a bar, they have her on camera, they have her leaving alone and the police found her car on the side of the road. No one has seen her since she left the bar.

Paul makes fun of me for always locking the doors, but it scares me to think that a person can just disappear. I would never want my family to go through that pain and suffering of not knowing what happened to me. I would think losing a child to illness or disease or an accident would be terrible, but to lose a child and have no closure and no knowledge of what happened to your child would be gut wrenchingly awful.

I heard on the radio that divers off the coast of Aruba may have found skeletal remains in the water. I am prayerful that it is Natalie Holloway so that her poor parents can have some closure in their lives.

Enough sadness. I am going to go outside and enjoy this gorgeous 70 degree day before it starts raining again tomorrow.

Be safe everyone!