It was Gail Gibbons, a friend of mine from San Diego. Gail is a youth minister and she was one of the folks running the Christian Awakening program, which was an intensive Catholic retreat program for kids in SD. She and I worked together planning events and such, but she's a dear friend I haven't seen since before Steve and I were together.
(In case you're wondering, I was out to her back then. Gail is one of the good Catholics. She also taught aerobics at Jane Fonda's studio, I think.)
Turns out, Gail was on her way back to SD from touring UC Santa Cruz with her son and daughter (who is a senior in high school). I tripped out, especially when we realized I'd decided to wear my Christian Awakening team T-shirt that night!
She also reads the blog, so she was very excited to meet everyone in person. She looked at Steve and said, "I love your snowglobes!" and then to Jeff and Steve and saying, "Yeah, your dad just moved to Michigan, and then you guys made Christmas cookies, and then you took a trip to Palm Springs-- I really want to review restaurants with Richard but it never works out-- and..."
Seriously! Of all the nights and all the wardrobes and all the people who claim to read the blog and actually do read it, everything came together. Like divine intervention, I'd say. Thank God John has his i-Phone to snap this pic.
It was lovely, but unfortunately I got a bad sinus/chest thing and spent the night sleeping in the spare room. Yuck. Hopefully I'll be better for work tomorrow. I HATE being sick. Back to watching Phineas and Ferb...
3 comments:
That's awesome Rick. There are no coincidences. Nothing better than running into an old friend. And glad to hear she's one of the good Catholics. I know a few of the good ones too.
How awesome! And yeah, there really are no coincidences...
Her daughter's a senior in HS? Now I feel old.
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