Well, it's Sunday night. We had a nice long weekend. Our last American weekend for a while. Ryan's last day of work is Wednesday, so after that all of our days here will just fall in to preparing for our trip.
We had the opportunity to visit with some friends of ours Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday morning and Sunday night.
It sounds crazy to list it off like that, but we have really enjoyed spending time catching up with people we have missed over the last few years of our lives.
Friday night we went to Barry and Joan's for dinner. I was so nervous before we got there. I spent so much time ridding horses, giving bathes, eating lunch and cleaning stalls with Barry for a few years, I was worried I wouldn't fall in like I used to and it would be awkward. But, Barry and Joan are as nice as ever, and I was so glad to be back in there home.
Saturday night we got to go to Destiny Church in St.Louis and see Craig. He just came back from Guatemala this week, and really enjoyed seeing him. We got to take him out to dinner again after church to Bandanna's. This is an old tradition for us that we like to rekindle when we can. We don't need menus any more, if that tells you anything. We enjoyed catching up with Craig and hearing from him how the next few month might pan out and where he feels he need to head in life.
Saturday morning we met some friends from Ryan's work for breakfast, Cory and Carrie. The are a nice young christian couple with a young son, kind of like us. They will hopefully be sowing in our garden while we are gone, to help keep the weeds down for next year, at least.
Saturday night we caught up with Scott and Angie Paul and their two kiddos (pictured above with Josh). Ryan went to visit them in the Hospital when their daughter was born, and it is neat to see them talk (Scott and Ryan) about when Ryan was single and didn't much care for girls, and now he has two kids. Scott was really excited to hear about our plans, and maybe will come to visit us in a few months. We are already excited to get to see him again, and show him Guatemala.
It is great to see friends again, that were we not leaving, we might not have seen for a while. We are glad to see them, and we are sad to leave, but it is the people who want to get every last visit in, are encouraging and excited for us, that we will really miss.
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I see you are checking off the things you must, people you want to see and trying to think of anything you might have forgotten..Michele Ball
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