A Series of Events - Tale #3: Family and Friends

Once upon a time, one week before my birthday, my mother had a surprise for me: she came to visit! It was a last-minute decision made by my dad.

You see, he's been very very busy for about a year now, and he promised that by May of this year things would finally slow down. So my mom has really been looking forward to having her husband back. But when the Canadian May long weekend rolled around, he decided to go fishing!

He must have felt guilty about it because he asked my mom, "How about I buy you a plane ticket to go see Art and Jenene and Sophia?" Well, my mom didn't have to think twice about that one!



It wasn't a complete surprise. As in, she didn't just show up at my door. That was actually her original plan, but she ended up telling me, because she found out that her visit was going to overlap with another event: my friend Kat came to visit me too!





Kat is one of my best friends. We met at Bible college, and though we don't speak or see each other that often, we have one of those friendships where we can pick up where we left off, no matter how long it's been.

Also, look at how happy she is, holding Sophia. Would you believe that a year ago, she was terrified of holding babies? She's had a bit of practice, and now she's a natural!

We took her and my mom out for dinner a couple of times, once to Art's favorite brewery, seen here:





Okay, so you can't actually see the restaurant at all.There was someone playing a lively piano song in the bar part of the restaurant, and Art was making Sophia dance. Don't you love her little sheep feet?

We also took Kat to our favorite Cajun restaurant. She was game enough to try the frog legs and alligator dip, and she actually liked them!

We also took her and my mom out for breakfast at that creperie I mentioned in the last post. We kind of love that place. (Fine, we love a lot of places. There are just so many great, unique restaurants around here!)

Art and I had a proper breakfast this time (not dessert), and Kat had a fruit and chocolate waffle that would make my sister jealous (my sister LOOOOOOOOOOVES waffles). I don't remember what my mom had, but I don't think anyone actually got crepes! And their crepes are excellent.

We also did some shopping. Kat bought Sophia a cute little Fourth of July dress [I'm so glad she supports our patriotism ;)], and she bought me two pairs of jeans as an early birthday gift! (Not that she needed to. Her coming to visit me was a great birthday gift in and of itself.)

And remember how I mentioned Sophia's early birthday gift to me? Well, Kat's first night here, Sophia slept through the night! Like a typical new mother, I did NOT sleep through night. I think I checked on her four or five times. How lame am I?

I'm sure there is more to tell of this tale, but seeing as how I failed to take more than five pictures, I can't really remember what else we did. If you click here, you can read all about it from Kat's point of view.

The End!