Friday I drove to Fort Leavenworth to the Bidwell Convention Center to present as the featured speaker at an event put on by the Protestant Women of the Chapel. I spoke on anxiety and then also got to talk about Homestead. The talk was very well received. We had a lovely dinner and I received gifts and a love offering for Homestead AND I got paid for it.
I then drove to Kansas City to meet my dear friend Alexis for the weekend as she and her husband bought a beautiful home and are moving to Willis, Texas. We stayed at the Embassy Suites on the Plaza.
Since I got there late, we settled into our room (the first one smelled like smoke) and got on our jammies and talked til late and then slept.
Alexis and I are perfectly matched in interests and energy level. We slept in, ate the hot free meal at the hotel and then sat in the hot tub for about an hour followed by a nap in the room.
After our naps, we cleaned up and did some power shopping at Old Navy at The Legends. I bought joggers, a cute hot pink shirt and a pair of black dress pants and a pair of checked dress pants. We then stopped by Alexis’ house and I got to see and collect my hug from her sweet husband Jeff who gives excellent hugs. We grabbed her two biggest dogs and took them for an “interview” at a doggie daycare near where Joel lives.
So of course we stopped by Joel and Kayla’s. We got to see the improvements they’ve done on the house and the paint samples they’ve chosen. They recommended a spot for lunch so we went to Billie’s Grocery in Westport and had lunch. I had a green smoothie (yuck) and hummus and a cream puff.
This was followed by another nap and a walk in the nearby park. We then changed for dinner and walked to and around the Plaza a bit then had a leisurely late dinner at my favorite restaurant PF Changs.
We stayed up late chatting again and Alexis taught me how to crochet. I am super excited about this because I like to do something while watching Netflix in the evenings and this will be tons better than iPad jigsaw. I am going to make throws with chunky yarn.
We slept in again this morning and got ready and checked out and drove back to Westport to have breakfast at Oddly Correct, a coffee shop that Joel and Kayla recommended. It is close to their house so they joined us. I had a Bourbon vanilla latte that was heavenly and a breakfast sandwich on a homemade biscuit that was delicious.
Alexis and I returned to The Legends to do more power shopping at Old Navy (I exchanged the black pants and bought some sunglasses) and then of course I had to buy some shoes. I bought some converse with pastel flowers and some white converse chucks. I will wear the heck out of them.
I drove home and stopped at the flower store and bought a crap load of flowers to fill the big planter pots at Ethos and at the house. Our back patio is filled with flower pots.
A small dinner and a ping pong match with the Mister and now I’m reading my delicious book Lenni and Margot and blogging. I’m excited to go buy my yarn tomorrow and take Deb the Homestead donation.
A wonderful weekend all the way around with the exception of saying goodbye to Alexis although I know I will go see her in Texas.
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