A Surprise Visit from Missy Claudia

When I checked my email before work on Friday morning there was an email from Claudia (addressed to me, Crystal, Amie, Michelle, Robyn and Lori) announcing that she was coming into town later that day and would love to see anyone who was available. What the?! The majority of Claudia's visits to Utah have been spontaneous and yet whenever she does this I'm surprised.



Of course there were no details about her visit, so I had no idea when she'd be arriving, if she was planning on staying with me or if I'd end up seeing her at all (this is just how she rolls). I left her a voicemail on my lunch break, then she called me around 4:00 to say she caught a ride with a friend of hers and was 4 hours away at the moment. We ended up getting cut off before any sort of plan or real details were given, so I still had no idea what her plan was, aargh!


She ended up calling me just as I was going to bed at 10:00 to say she was staying at her aunt's house (who wasn't even in town) and that she didn't have a car (since she had driven with her friend). We arranged for me to pick her up Saturday morning at 9:30 so we could go to breakfast before I dropped her off at her hair appointment (her one definite plan) at 12:30 in Salt Lake.



We went to IHOP for a very tasty breakfast (it's such a rare treat to have a full-on breakfast like this) and leisurely conversation as we caught up on each others' lives.

After breakfast we wandered around Tai Pan Trading for an hour, then I dropped her off at her hair appointment. I haven't heard from her since and wouldn't be surprised if she called or showed up at my house at any moment or if I didn't hear from her again for months. I never know with that girl.

**Do you like to make definite plans or just go with the flow?

Do you enjoy a full-on breakfast like this?

Do you have any crazy friends like this?**

Comment Window Tidbit: It's so glorious to have a 3 day weekend!

Finally, a Great Summer Movie!

I called Collette at the last minute on Saturday to see if she wanted to go to the movies with me, and luckily she was available. I literally gave her 10 minutes notice before I came to pick her up.


We drove way out to Jordan's Landing to see 500 Days of Summer (it wasn't showing at our local theater), and the drive took long enough that we thought we were going to miss the first few minutes of the movie, but woohoo we made it in there with 1.5 previews still to see! The movie was great, a totally refreshing, fun, different romantic comedy that even guys will like.




After the movie, we wandered around Barnes and Noble for awhile and concluded that our book club needs to read some classics every now and again. Collette cracked me up by saying, "I've really got to get back into reading, I just need to get my life together." This, from my most organized, responsible and adult-like friend. Seriously, if her life isn't together then the rest of us are in trouble!


We ended up buying some really random things during our visit to Target. I was surprised and bummed at the check-out to find I only bought a 3 pack of tissues and a bottle of Oxy Clean Spray stuff...nothing fun. Collette bought soap, a magnetic notepad, Soft scrub, an apple scented diffuser and a watch--how's that for random?


We were starving by this point and went to Carinos for dinner. There's nothing quite so embarrassingly American as sitting at a table full of more food than you could possibly eat!! We both ended up taking home almost our entire entrees, but really did enjoy stuffing ourselves with the bread, salad and our Italian sodas.

**Do you ever go on spontaneous outings like this?
Have you seen this movie?
Do you love perusing Barnes & Noble?
Do you like reading Classics?
Do you ever feel guilty when surrounded by so much food?**