We had a wonderful brunch today that many of our friends attended. Beth made omelettes to order and we had crepes with fruit and the whipped cream I made fresh this morning. Good food, good conversations and your basic holiday cheer. It was great! … except.
I threw this brunch so that my friends (now my family) could meet my old pal Debby and her family. Guess where Deb is from … Roanoke VA. That’s right! The place that is currently under 2 ft of snow. She called me on Saturday afternoon to tell me that they were still in the Roanoke airport where they had spent the night at the airports Sheraton awaiting the clearing of the runways and rescheduling of the flights. The guest of honor for our brunch was holed up in Virginia with two young sons and her husband pacing and praying … As Toni would say … OY!!
About 8pm on Saturday I got a call …”We’re in Orlando”. We’ll see you tomorrow … about noon. GREAT!!!! Except …..
The brunch was set for 10 ish for all of my local friends. Whadda ya gonna do? So everyone from the theater company came between 10 and 10:30. most everyone left between 11:30 and noon and Deb and family arrived at 12:30 having missed every light on the way and gotten stuck, to boot, behind some weird holiday motorcycle parade for about a half an hour.
Jason and Bev were still here … so they got to meet two of our best friends and there was still some food left …. so that was good.
More importantly I got to spend the rest of the afternoon with my dear old friend and her charming family. Her husband Jeff had us all in stitches … funny, funny guy. Her kids are terrific! I took them out and showed off our amazing “Honeymoon Island Beach” (Jeff decided then and there to stay here and not return to Virginia) and had a great chance to catch up after a 15 year absence in one anothers lives.
God bless Facebook!!! reconnecting old friends everywhere! Sometimes … like this time … that really works out well.