Saturday with Kasey

Kasey was in town this week visiting her brothers and I was lucky enough to be able to have all day Saturday to spend with her. We did all the girly things that you should get to do with your best friend. We started with shopping--I'm not sure when the last time I walked a mall was, but it was really nice to get to go and not have to stop for a carousel ride! We had great salads for lunch and never even had to consider what might be on the kid's menu. Then, we went to see Sex and the City. I think we were some of the only people who had not yet seen it and we were so glad we went. It is the quintessential friend movie and some of the scenes are so real and so representative of periods of a life-long friendship that we found ourselves more emotional than we expected to be during the movie. There were, of course, a few gratuitous scenes that I could have done without, but really it had so much to say about all the little life events (and the big ones) that would never be the same if you didn't have your best girlfriends in your life.

Later that day, we came home for Kasey to visit with Farrel and the kids. They were all so happy to see her and it was then that I felt a pang of what we missed on a daily basis by living so far away from each other. It was a great day filled with so much laughing and talking that my throat was sore. If only we had made it to the airport on time, it would have been a perfect trip! Sorry again, Kasey--apparently, I didn't want you to leave...