Summer of Amie

I hardly ever get to see Amie during the very busy school year, so summer is usually the time when we hang out. In the past, most of this hanging out has happened at my not-so-favorite waterpark, but this summer has been different because we've gotten together for impromptu outings.

Amie texted me the morning of July 2nd to see if I wanted to meet at Cafe Rio for lunch (um yes please). It turns out her daughter Jessica had a friend visiting from out of town so Amie had agreed to shuttle them around a bit and wanted a friend too, I was happy to oblige. We stuffed ourselves silly at Cafe Rio first.

Then we waddled around Target for awhile while the girls wandered in other parts of the store. Amie has all kinds of tricks for managing her curly hair and these tubs of gel are part of repertoire.

It was beasty hot that day so we tried to cool ourselves with the car's air conditioning. I had to keep checking to make sure the seat warmer wasn't on because my backside felt too hot. I really need seat coolers, not warmers! We found some good stuff at the dollar store (Sudoku books and treats).

We met up with the girls again (they had walked down to Old Navy) for some funny group shopping at Costco. I will admit that I caved to a sample situation (normally I'm opposed to this on principle) because they were giving full-sized yogurt Creamies.

I just had to document the amount of animal food Amie had to buy!! Dog, cat and chicken food!! These items are never on my shopping list, no wonder she's so strong...it's all that heavy lifting.

Since our birthdays are one week apart we usually get together for some sort of outing. This time we went out on Amie's birthday (the 16th).

We were debating between Which Wich and 5 Guys and made fools of ourselves standing in front of the restaurant trying to make a decision, eventually we concluded that fries were more appealing than chips on this particular day. Oh my goodness, it was such a good choice, those burgers were the best ever. They were bigger than we expected, but we ate them all!

After lunch we went to the mall to go to Bath & Body so I could get some sort of air freshening plan since my house has a tendency to default to a musty old, people smell. I don't notice it most of the time but when I came back from my trip I could hardly stand it! (This is a cruel irony for me since I'm always cleaning and like to have the windows open.)

After the mall visit (I bought Eucalyptus Mint because I enjoyed it so much at Collette's house) we went for pedicures. I had never gone with a friend before because I usually enjoy reading my book for the hour, but it was fun.

Our last stop was the grocery store for a few items, but since Yogurt Bliss is right next door we had to go there for dessert.

This is the present Amie gave me, inside was a skirt, 2 pairs of earrings, 2 Twix bars and a lip gloss. What can I say, she knows what I like.