"Mama Kay," Aleister said on the phone to me today, "do you realize we have met our Higher Power?"
"How's that?" I asked.
"The Space Needle!" he exclaimed. "We have sat and eaten in It's Lap."
I must have gone silent for a few seconds too long because he followed up with, "...that was a joke."
"I know, I know!" I said.
"And you're not laughing," he observed.
"But I'm grinning!" I insisted. "If you could see me, you could see the grin. It's a really, really big grin, Aleister."
"We're on the telephone," he said, drawing out the word tel-e-phone, "and you could be sitting or standing or lying down; tears could be running down your face, you could be licking an ice cream cone, you might not be grinning at all."
"You're right," Allie," I said. "Absolutly. That's the great things about phones. Or at least the old fashioned kind that we have, without cameras. You can be doing any thing you want to be doing and you cn tak at the same time and it's cool, because nobody knows the difference."
"AHA!" exclained Aleisiter. "Another lie! I am beginning to worry about you. You told a lie inside the Higher Power and now you are admitting to a second kind of lie."
"Oh my God," Allie, saying it was your birthday at the Space Needle restaurant was a perfectly acceptable social kind of lie. And it got us a wonderful window seat! Without a reservation! And who did we hurt by that little lie? Nobody was behind !s? We were at the very very end of the brunch line. It's not like we were hurting anybody else...."

"But, Mama Kay, it was still...." Aleister tried to point out....
"Oh, stop," I interrupted.
".....a lie." He finished.

"So do you wish we hadn't gone? And eaten that fabulous food? While the restaurant totally revolved itself not once, but twice?" I asked.
"I'll bet you are not grinning right now, Mama Kay, "Aleister commented.
"Righteo," I said.
"No, I had a very great time with you and Grandpa Alan. He was an excellent protector. I did not think I would ever be able to go all the way up and keep all that food down."
"So how many people have you told about our adventure?" I asked.
"You mean about the lie?" he said.
"No, Smarty Pants, I mean about going all the way up to the Observation Deck and then down a bit to the restaurant and sitting there for two whole hours and eating our guts out."
"Uh.....five."
"Who were they?"
"My mom, my dad, my friend Alyssia, the Fred Myer guy and somebody else I forgot."
"Well, I'm gonna put it on my blog," I said. "Because for me it represented getting over a huge phobia about heights."
"Okay, you put it in your blog and I will put it in my dreams," Aleister said. "And if you or Grandpa Alan ever want to visit the dream, just ask. Okay?"
"Okay," I said. "We will."
"Mama Kay?" Aleister said, before we hung up.
"Yeah?"
"Did you get a look at the bolts on that thing?"
"Yes I did, Allie, "yes I did."
"I didn't know what to say when Grandpa Alan showed them to me so I just said 'wow'."
"I think that's the perfect thing to say," I said.
"Yeah," Aleister said. "Wow".
And then we hung up.