The Rest of my Fantastic Friday

Well! It's been a day and a half already and it's only 3:30 in the afternoon! After all the excitement this morning, when Anja and I were finally dressed and ready for the rest of the day, we decided to go for a walk in the gorgeous morning. I called Kim to see if he happened to be downtown--it's always fun to have someone to walk with and he's the only person I know who is regularly bumming around downtown instead of regularly working. We met up on 4th street--on the way there, I saw my mother-in-law's car parked outside the courthouse. I thought she might be out to lunch with someone so I called her. Turns out she was in court with her Mock Trial kids, but she was GOING to go to lunch with all of them at noon and she invited me along! So instead of having a peanut butter sandwich for lunch, I got to have SALMON & ASPARAGUS!! Wahoo! But before I met up with her, Kim and I managed to get from 4th street to almost 9th street and bumped into tons of people on the way that we knew. The first was Sugar, who invited us into the new restaurant that is going into the old Cajun building. It is SO CUTE. I can't wait till they open. I'm definitely going to see if my parents want to go to lunch there next week, if they open then like they are hoping to. So we hung around there for awhile, then kept walking and ran into Dawn of Adam&Dawn and she admired Anja for awhile and while she was, Mrs. Mills saw us and came over to chat and, of course, admire Anja! Such fun! I walked Kim up to 9th street and he kept going toward Trinity Mission while I turned around and walked back down the other side of the street toward the Bistro. On the way I ran into my old boss (& fellow parishoner) Diana so she got to meet Anja too. Luckily, Anja was in the best mood of the century and was handing out smiles like church bulletins.

Lunch was fun; Mrs. Schap and I sat at a table by ourselves. One thing that did annoy me was when I came in with my stroller--which I admit is slightly oversized--and parked it next to our table and a waiter came out and said quite audibly, "well that's going to be awkward" as he moved around the stroller, which, by the way, I made sure left as much of a walkway as was possible. What annoyed me wasn't that they were unwelcoming of strollers--heck, I don't even like strollers, I think they are big and bulky and generally ugly and in-the-way--but he didn't have to grunt that the way he did and what if it had been my daughter in a wheelchair? Hmm??? Then would he have said anything?! Yes, I would rather have come with her in the carrier or sling so she could've just sat on my lap, but I wasn't planning on going out to lunch when I started out on my walk. I shouldn't be annoyed by that, but I was. I understand why he would THINK that, but I just think it was kind of rude to say it aloud. By the way, the waiter who said it was not Billy Brand, who was the waiter for our table! It was some blonde guy I don't know.

Anyway. I fed Anja in the bathroom and she fell asleep and slept all the way home. In fact, she's still sleeping. I transferred her from the stroller to our bed though. If she's not awake by 4:00 I'm going to wake her up though because while I appreciate the 3-hour naps, I don't necessarily want her sleeping ALLLLL afternoon and not sleeping tonight. I hate waking her up though, it seems so mean.

By the way, did I happen to mention how great she was this morning when we yanked her out of bed to flee the house? She was amazing. Of course, she woke right up, but she never made a peep. She's awesome!

Last night was the judging night for the Shirley Martin Scholarship. It was a lot of fun. Those things always are. Somehow I've managed to stay in the judging group all these years and last night I finally felt like I did a good job. I had really strong opinions about certain ones and I stuck with them and in the end, they turned out to be everyone else's opinions too!

TusaRebecca wanted to walk the dogs this afternoon, but Martin will be home in a little more than an hour. Good thing we're having leftovers for dinner! Maybe I will give in and wake Anja. She'd like a walk in her carrier anyway. And there's no sense wasting this wonderful day inside!

P.S. I'm disappointed in the serious lack of comments on my earlier post.