cimorene

dreamed i was with my favorite cousin and her mother, my favorite aunt, in kansas where all my extended family live, and my other aunt, tina, had given us a key to her house and the job of sneaking in the back door, which was a secret entrance now, around in her garden, which led directly to the basement. so we went there, and spent a long time trying to get in, and somehow the fact that her house was very messy on the inside caused it to be horribly horribly hot on the outside. like, eventually cherrie (aunt) figured it out, while i sat there fanning myself with aubry, and as i was sitting there i happened to discover a slip of offical State of Kansas paper from the early 1990s and one of my first visits to kansas without my parents, signed by a highway patrolman or something, which said that it was okay for

cara_chapel (yeah, you lived in kansas in the dream) to drive me the long and perilous way to the airport. needless to say i was shocked to discover that i had somehow known cara before i had really known her. meanwhile, cherrie figured out how to get in and we managed it, and there was sort of an area full of greeting cards which had been saved over the years, on the kind of rack you find them in in stores, and piles of clothes on some old furniture (this is nothing like tina's house, which is always neat as a pin), and on the other side of the room, an old sink which, when aubry turned it on, produced nothing but hot rusty water which sprayed literally all the way across the basement. we finally retrieved what we had been sent for and as we left via the front door cherrie laughed in relief and said she would just mention to tina, next time, not to leave the area around her door so untidy, for one thing so it wouldn't be so hot and another so that the door would open.