My birthday was Sept. 20 and I have a dear friend who has a birthday Oct. 4. We’re the same age, except I’m two weeks older than she. We’ve been friends for a long time. Even before most of our children were born. She moved away from where we met as neighbors, but we’ve stayed in touch all these years. We have a LOT in common, even our first names! We both have an interest in crafts, mostly handwork like crochet, etc. but we also have a lot of the same basic likes and dislikes, philosophies of life, children all about the same ages, etc. So we can talk for hours given the opportunity! This is my friend:
She’s a really sweet person and I feel very fortunate to have her for a friend and that we’ve been able to stay in touch all these years!
She called me last week and wanted to get together for lunch to celebrate our birthdays since they’re so close together. She lives quite a ways from here so we decided to meet half way. I actually found the place of our rendezous without doing any backtracking! That’s quite an accomplishment for me, since my middle name is usually “backtrack”!
We had a wonderful time talking and exchanging gifts and talking and getting caught up with our families and did I mention talking? We almost forgot to go eat lunch! But we found a nice little place that had great food! Oh my gosh, I can’t believe I ate so much! Here’s where we ate:
We had a gal that was working there take our pic together:
After we stuffed got all we wanted to eat, we rode around and found a neat little thrift shop and went shopping! Oh, I LOVE finding bargains, as well as my friend. (Another thing we have in common!) The place is called Genesis:
It was just chocked full of neat things. I got a sack full of goodies and my friend got two sacks of goodies. I love looking around in places like that. You never know what you’re going to find, and usually what you do find is quite a bargain! Have I mentioned that we both LOVE bargains!?
Well, our day was quickly getting away from us and we still had to drive home, so we said our good-byes until next time. (Hopefully it won’t be as long between as last time.) It was a beautiful day, weather-wise, and a beautiful day being together! I hope she enjoyed the day as much as I did, but I suspect that she did!
