Special things

Madison, Ellie, and I all had specific things that were exciting and specifically pertained to us.  (Jeremy’s is coming up.) 

Ellie was invited for Bailey’s birthday to go to an Otter experience along with their friend, Maylynn.  They were in a room where Asian otters would climb around on them and they could pet them.  It looked like the girls really enjoyed this unique experience!

              

Madison wanted to get her second piercing on her ear.  We paid for the first hole for both girls, but said the rest was on them.  She used some money she earned from dog/house sitting this summer to get her second hole.  They look nice and I am sure she will enjoy changing them out when she can. (I know, not a very exciting picture.  Her studs are small, cubic zirconia set in gold.)

I made arrangements to go to visit my college roommate, Rachel, in Goshen.  It had been a long time (over 6 years because that is when they moved and I hadn’t see there new house!) since I had been to her place.  She and her family were just getting back from a 15-day trek out West, but she made time to get away/take a break to hang out with me.  I stopped to see Molly, one of my housemates after college, in her new place in Bluffton.  It was nice to stop and catch up with her for about 2 hours.  I got in around 5:30 to enjoy fish tacos with Rach and her husband; her boys were off doing sporty things with friends.  Then, we stayed at her friend’s mom’s getaway house just down the street.  It gave Rach a chance to leave behind responsibilities and also her family to not tiptoe around us as we sat and talked. 

    

We toured around Goshen on Wednesday and enjoyed live music during dinner and then grabbed ice cream at The Chief afterwards.  I left around 9am on Thursday morning.  We pledged to see each other more often, but we both know how that goes.  It was so good.