A Lovely Weekend

We have had a busy last week and a half (busier than normal).

Last week my delightful friend and her charming husband came to stay for a few days. He had a work conference on the West Coast and she joined him at the end for a little R&R. They were with us from Thursday morning to Saturday morning and it was a lot of fun.

Jill has been a good friend since sophomore year of high school, and has been a friend of The Italian's since almost as long as I've known him. Her man is a good guy and they complement each other well. They are a child-free couple but they like kids, so they are fun to have around the children. (They have the patience of people who don't have to be patient with children all day, every day!) Plus they didn't have any agenda other than just hanging out with us.

So we did fun things like going to both kids' Halloween parades, we took them to our local German Butcher (they like meat!) and we ate some good food. It was a good time. The Italian took this picture of them at one of the kids' parades:


It is always a relief and a treat when a good friend marries someone that you like very much, it makes spending time together that much more enjoyable.

After they left we spent the day getting ready for the evening's trick or treating, at which point we were joined by another couple, also child-free, who came for the evening. It was so much fun to have extra grownups around - it meant that we could take turns taking the kids out trick or treating and still have company to enjoy the evening with. Lara is a friend from college and her man is a great guy, I feel lucky to have good friends like all of these.