Today marked the end of another amazingly wonderful week with Vicki. We’ve known each other 37 years! Her visits every spring are a tonic to my soul.
So how did we spend our precious 7 days? Honestly, we did very little that could be categorized as exciting, even though there are a billion-and-one beauties to behold in our fair state. Since I was sick all week I really put the damper on things. I couldn’t do much in the way of walking, and also had kiddos at home to manage. So we mostly sat around and Netflixed our way through my latest sci-fi series, with breaks to go out for lunch. We saw some movies in the evenings, through which I was able to make it, hacking only slightly less with the help of a large bag of Halls cherry-flavored cough drops. We did a little family walk at Encanto Park Thursday afternoon, and Vicki and I took a little sight-seeing excursion on Friday. We drove up the Bush Hwy, stopping along the way for a few pics, and had lunch at the restaurant at Saguaro Lake. It was refreshing to get out of town and see some countryside on such a pretty day.
Really, the most valuable thing about a friend is not whether you go out and do exciting things. It’s the irreplaceable companionship that can come into your home and live inside your daily struggle for a week, see the mess, listen to the whining kids, offer encouragement, witness the laughs and love, help you sort the laundry and build shelves for your kid-rooms, and press pause (over and over) on the TV when you cough so hard you have to pee. She’s the real deal. I am blessed.
Here are some pics from our Bush Highway drive. I played with B&W on some of them… most of them I prefer the color, but there were a couple I thought turned out very nicely in monochrome.
Pics from Encanto Park. These were all taken with Paul’s new Pixel 2 phone, some by him, some by me. For some reason Natalie featured prominently. 😀 It’s a pretty good phone camera!
