So Saturday afternoon, I was at a family reunion when I picked up my phone to check the time and saw that I had a voice mail message from Missy Claudia. I listened to the message and found out that she was in Utah for 24 hours and wanted to get together for lunch! It turns out she found out Friday afternoon that she had a last-minute opportunity to drive to Utah with a friend of hers who was delivering a van full of furniture. She immediately called her hair dresser in Utah to see if he could fit her in on Saturday and he said she would need to be here by 9:00am...so she called her friend and said they would need to drive all night! (I so don't operate this way!)
It worked out though, they drove all night and she made it to her hair appointment in time. We weren't able to get together though because I was at my family reunion and then had an appointment to take some family photos, so I was booked for the day. But Claudia had brought my "grown up" birthday present (since it was too fragile to mail) and said she would be leaving it at my house on her way out of town on Sunday.
I called her at 8:45 Sunday morning to let her know I had left her very belated-birthday present at my house for her. She was just leaving Park City at that time, so we knew we would miss each other.
So imagine my surprise and amusement when we arrived home from church at 12:15 and saw a ginormous white van in front of our house and then saw Claudia and her friend sitting in our Adirondack chairs out front?!
I don't know why they were so late leaving, but she knew we would be home around then so they waited. She said she felt like Goldilocks as she rummaged through our house (I had left it unlocked for her) looking for food. Apparently they had had some toast (she loves the Granny Bread we buy).
We ended up visiting for a short while, laughing at her craziness, and feeding them some chips and dip and the last two cans of diet Coke (left over from when Kristi was here for Women's Conference).
This is my grown-up birthday present from Claudia.
This is the enormous van she drove away in!
I never know when she's going to show up or what craziness will ensue, but I do know that she will show up at some point and that there will be craziness! Good times.
**Would you do a 12 hour road trip on such short notice?
Can you drive all night and stay awake?
What do you think of my "grown-up" gifts?**
Comment Window Tidbit: Today marks 1 month until my 40th birthday...eeeek!
11 comments:
I would love to be spontaneous like Claudia, but I would have to plan to be spontaneous for it to work.
Hooray for you almost reaching 40! The 40's are so much kinder to me than the 30's.
I love that girl.
Claudia blows my mind...
Oh my I don't do spontaneous well. This would make me a nervous wreck!
But how fun you were able to see Claudia!
i would love to do a spontaneous road trip- and i'm wondering...how does she do this with 2 small kids? sweet!
not a stay awake all night driver. my sleep research has cured me of ever wanting to do that again.
claudia is amazing. she's such a fun person. what a cool thing that she can call up short notice and pop in. i love that.
in the words of taegen, "nice!" in reference to your grown up gifts. :)
I just love your last little paragraph – it sums up Claudia perfectly.
This is SO not like me. I can't even drive long distances in daylight and stay awake!
I love your grown-up gifts.
That's just awesome!
It is so nice that Claudia always makes an effort to see you, even on such a short trip.
I don't do planning or spontaneous well. Wah.
I cannot stay awake and drive.
driving all night would do me in for sure! Claudia is so funny that way! Like the time she showed up at my house and I couldn't have looked worse for our first meeting! HA!
Fun that she always finds time to see you!
I think a trip like that would be so fun! To just take off like that... the opportunity doesn't come often. To keep myself up all night, that would be the challenge. I'm not the least bit surprised that Claudia pulled this one- she is queen of spontaneity. Love the birthday gift!
She is so crazy, I could never operate that way! I am the opposite of spontaneous.
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