So my friend Shauna called last month and asked if we'd like to meet them for a couple of days in Minneapolis which is halfway for both of our families. It was an offer we couldn't refuse so we left that next Sunday after church and headed south.
Driving through Duluth and Minneapolis was a breeze because everyone was home watching the Vikings/Packers football game on TV. We pulled in the hotel parking lot and looked up and saw three heads in a sixth story window looking out and waving their heads off.
One of the cool things about our friends is that their names, first and last, all start with "S." Shannen, Shauna, Shaylee, Summer, Shania, Sawyer, and Shyanne.
They're the kind of friends where we can pick right up where we left off. Our kids have a special bond and even though the ages span from my Erica at 17 to their Shyanne at 2, all of them enjoy spending time together. Poor Sawyer (age 4) doesn't quite realize that he's the only boy.
How fun to have good friends just down the hall in the hotel. The kids played long and hard and wore a path between the two rooms. Sort of like a two day sleepover.
And they swam for hours. So much so that by the Tuesday morning, their skin burned.
We have lots of pictures of the seven oldest, but few with all nine. Now we know why. The two youngest had no interest in cooperating.
Friends, swimming, snacks, free hotel breakfast, card games, movies, pizza, Perkins: How fun is that?
--Erica and Shania--
--Anna and Shaylee--
Our girls left on Tuesday with happy hearts and full emotional tanks, thankful for a friendship that has survived a 450 mile separation.
That sounds like so much fun. I have friends like that too. Doesn't matter how long it's been since the last visit, you can pick right up where you left off. Nothing better than that!
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