Thursday... lunch with Sue and lots more fun...
Thursday morning was not as hard on me as I thought it would be. I did have 3 glasses of wine Wednesday night... but other than the huge crater sized dark circles under my eyes I wasn't really that groggy. Janell and I got up first that day and Jen made fun of us because we were talking in the bathroom area but when we came back to the bedroom area we started whispering... like it was not the same room... Hey we were trying to be polite anyways
We are excited because we are having lunch with Sue! We shower... get all dressed up in our T's and hoodies...ok I have to take a detour back here to explain my Tshirt situation. I did not request a WWKD Tshirt. I chose not to because of the word ASS... ok I said it... ASS... Craig ask me later if I was an animal rights activist and had something against kicking donkeys. It took me a minute to get it but .....LOL.... that was pretty funny. You guys know I have small kids and I just chose not to let them see that shirt... not that is was scandalous or the F word or anything but .... anyways. Our clever planners... Actually.. I am not sure who came up with the idea but Tracy had me a special shirt made.... I will get a picture of it on here asap. My WWKD shirt said.... One Kick BUM instead of Kick Ass. IT was cute... of course I blushed cause it put emphasis on my prudishness... but still I wore my KICK BUM shirt with pride... THERE was also another KICK BUM shirt that was ironed on backward that they were going to trick me with. They thought if they didn't let me look at it but in the mirror I wouldn't notice and walk around all day with my logo backward... Those sneaky girls... AND I did end up with an ASS shirt anyway because the test sample was LIME GREEN.... SO... I wore it on one of our game nights. You should have seen my husbands face when I started pulling out these shirts and explaining all the stories behind them... He thinks we are all a little nuts but that is ok... nutty people are good people.
So we get downstairs and make a trip across the road with Kathie, Lynn and I think Debbie to McDonalds for Tea, Iced coffee, cokes and various food products. We then went back to the meeting room to hang out for a while.
Soon it was lunch and Sue and Steve took us out to Cunningham's I believe it was. I had a great time there sitting with Cher, Jen, Janell, Morty, Leslie... Ron my love and Bonnie (that Ron is just a cutie pie) We had Sue at our table too and that was pretty cool. We ate talked, did silly things.... then it was gift time.
We gave Sue her charm bracelet and from the pictures you have seen you can tell she was really digging it. Gosh, Sue made out like a bandit on this trip. She got so much stuff. Janice gave her the big cookbook. The scrap book, another needlepoint... Vicki sent them some really cool mugs. There were several dag cards involved in these presentations also.
Tracy gave us helper girls a really cool magnifying glass. I will have to photo it and post it. So clever! I was tickled to get it. Tracy you just spoil me rotten...
They went back to the meeting room with us and Sue signed more stuff and Steve was so patient. I know he was very ready to go. BUT I think he liked us too because he had told us the night before he wasn't going to lunch. I am glad he did. Sue needed back up keeping us all inline.
Sadly our time with Sue ended. We all did our good byes and watched them fade into the sunset. WHAT a time we had. 3 days of Sue Grafton... Priceless....
After this we played the Trivia game and I was out after round one so I will not go on about this... let the victors tell the tale.
That evening Jenjen wanted to check out some of the places from her past... Jenjen is happy now but as we know her life was ripped apart when the OLD Christian decided he wanted to not be married. They were living in L'ville at the time and her life got uprooted and she didn't really get closure. I hope her being there with us and visiting these places and being able to talk to us about them and the things she did there gave her some of that closure. She showed us some really nice residential areas and it was very interesting. She was major craving Bob Evans so we went there and had dinner.
After dinner we cruised a tad more and took our poor Janell back to get migraine meds and put her to bed, went to the meeting room and played games. That was a hoot. I am not a gamer by nature but I love playing games with you guys.
When Jen and I get back to the room Janell wakes up and she is feeling better thank goodness and I think we end up staying awake later then ever.......