Well. This has been a long day. Bill and I woke up at 5am, he made coffee (God bless him) and I got ready. By 6:30-ish we were on our way to Cicero, In. The sun just started to come up as we got closer to the lake, the temperature seemed to be getting warmer. Then it got foggy. It finally started to clear up as we got closer to the state line and while it looked cloudy and was still chilly but that was better than the alternative, rain.
I take that back. It started to rain. Then there was lightning and thunder and a lot of rain. Dark skies everywhere, National Weather Service issuing warnings (quarter size hail), and we're still driving. We made it to my parents house. Mom and I headed out to run some errands for Cyndi. It was still raining. As Mom and I were driving back to their house, it had actually stopped and the clouds were higher, we even saw some specks of blue sky way off in the distance.
Cyndi showed up a little later and we started arranging flowers in vases for tomorrow. By the time we had finished the sun was shining. The boys had all left to go pick up the cupcakes and the girls all left to stop by the park to check out the layout. It had warmed up considerably; for those of us who were wearing jackets and layers, we had all stripped down to our last layer. It was already close to if not 70. By the time we met up with the boys at the apartment it was blue sky, no clouds and warm! The flowering trees are all flowering, the rest of the trees here are all green (!), and the tulips are going to bloom any minute. The hyacinths are in full bloom and so are the daffodils. It snowed in Las Vegas today!!!
We headed to a restaurant, Brugge Braisserie in Broad Ripple. They're known for their mussels and their frites. Oh, wow. It was delicious. We got the L'Norme, the big cone of fries with all the dipping sauces. (A little history I learned in college -see Dad! My education is paying off... or not since I write this for free. Anyway my french professor in college was from Belgium. According to her, and all Belgians, french fries originated there. They are served in a paper cone and should be drizzled with mayonnaise. That's why it's okay to eat mayo with your fries and why this place is named that and serves twenty different kinds of dipping sauces with their fries!)
There were ten of us and we ate those fries like it was our last meal (we had been waiting for our table for an hour and a half). Then we ordered more food.
I need to go take a long walk.
The drive home was pleasant. We had the windows open and the breeze was nice. It was 8:20pm and the sun was setting. It was a big ball of hot pink on the horizon.
Tomorrow will be chaos. Have I mentioned there's a wedding?
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