Where's my dolly?

So it's been a while since I've posted.  And for a while I even thought I might delete this blog and not bother. But last night I had a dream that was very interesting and I kind of want to write it down while I remember.

I was at some kind of antique show or craft fair type thing with my family, including my niece as well as some of my former students were there with us as well.  I'd found a couple of like yarn dolls that had themes like Gone with the Wind and Wizard of Oz.  Then we lined up to buy things, and you had to put your stuff on this conveyor belt, I guess like a grocery store, except for that it went in kind of a square for the long line. When I got up to the front, I realized one of the dolls had fallen off or something so I ran back in line to try to find it.  I asked one of my students to watch the other doll while I went to look. I couldn't find it, and when I got back, the students had gone up to pay, and my other doll was nowhere to be found.  I just knew someone had taken it, so I started walking past all the other people and looking at their piles to see if I could find it.  When that didn't work I went and sat at the cash registers and watched every purchase. Eventually everyone was through, and other than a couple suspicious acting people, I never found it.  Meanwhile my family had left me and went back to our hotel.  So I had to find a way back there.  When I got back I was kind of mad at them for leaving.

Before I left though I had to go get my car, and it was parked up on a hill that I had to climb up, and it was hard, my fingers were digging through dirt.  I think that bit of the dream came from watching the new show Zoo last night, when the two characters fell down the hill.

Later in the dream I was at a movie theater and getting in line to see a movie I wanted. Now this theater was on a hill, but it was also, when I left, in a real shopping center in my town, that is actually kind of down a hill.  So who knows.  I had ridden a bike there and people were asking me how I was going to get home, and I showed them the bike and they were impressed I would ride that far.

Those are the main things I remember. 

Class Field Trips?

Okay, some really weird things in my dreams last night.  Somehow I ended up in a hotel with students.  Other teachers were there as well, so it's not anything really weird and wrong.  We had taken the kids on some kind of field trip.  And we were staying in groups in hotel rooms.  But for some reason there were both men and women teachers in the teachers rooms.  And what was even weirder was that we taught classes in the hotel rooms.  And of course my classes that I was teaching went like they always do in my dreams.  The technology didn't work, and I didn't really have anything planned, and I was behind on grading, and the kids were rowdy, and on and on.

For some reason there was a guy there that I had been kind of seeing and I went to meet up with him, and was supposed to get back in time for dinner with the students. But I didn't make it back in time. When I got back I found out that the other teachers had just taken them to the food court at a mall instead of out for a nicer meal.  I was not happy.  The food court in the mall is one that does show up in my dreams occasionally.

Hmm, parts of the hotel, the hallway outside the room, the main lobby, those were all parts that have been in other dreams.  The room itself was a new one.

Not sure what most of the dream probably meant.  I know I'm probably dreaming about school stuff as the end of the school year approaches and is more on my mind. Also going to a retirement party for people at my last school this past week probably brought back those kinds of memories as well.