Great visit with friends

June 20 – Two days off!  Not that we have to get up early or anything but it’s nice to have a couple of days to do whatever we want.  It was kinda chilly this morning but warmed up to a really nice day, about 88.

We left around 11:00 for Charlottesville.  We stopped at the VC to see if the safe was opened and it was not and no sodas had been delivered.  So, nothing new!  I stopped at the post office in Lyndhurst drop off postcards and mail.  I wanted to stop at Staples for ink before meeting our friends, Mike and Linda, for lunch.  I didn’t know there were 2 Staples and the one Google sent us to was not the one I wanted but I did get my ink.  Then I made a couple of phone calls while I knew I had good service.

The store worked out better in that it was only 8 minutes to the Riverside

Bill, Kelly, Linda and Mike

Lunch diner where we were headed.  This place got rave reviews on Yelp and Trip Advisor and we were only looking for a good lunch and nothing fancy.  It was perfect.  We arrived about 5 minutes before Linda and Mike and it was so good to see them.  I grew up with Linda and knew Mike also as his dad and my grandfather were very good friends.  We had the best hand made burgers and little round cheese balls that were deep fried and we shared with them a basket of fries and a basket of onion rings.  Boy, those onion rings were good!  They were sweet and tender and the onion didn’t pull out of the breading when you bit it.  Of course the best part was the visit.  We were there for 3 hours and could have talked 3 more but the guys were getting antsy and Mike was dealing with a sinus infection.  We caught up on our families since all of our parents, except for Bill, knew and/or grew up together in Cartersville.  That’s really home for me and I love that I am still in touch with Linda and Peggy.  Peggy and I couldn’t come up with a good day to meet.  I’ll need to let everyone know much sooner next time we’re in the area so I get to see everyone.

Not a good photo at all of the dead horse

On the way home we filled up the car as we only had 45 miles left to run out of gas.  As we approached our exit I was behind a truck and it dawned on the that the cargo in the back was a dead horse.  It had rigor mortis.  We thought they could have put a tarp over it. I made a stop at Wal-mart in Waynesboro.  I hadn’t planned on dinner but luckily had a chicken breast leftover so we had Chicken Caesar Salad.  It was a nice change and simple to fix.