Good Friends
last weekend the sandlins and ashley pickers made the trek up to south kakalaki for some good hang out time with corey and me. this is the first time in a loooong time that i’ve hung out with shawn and katie for more than an hour or two at once (i got pickers last summer on our cross-country adventure). can i just say it was BLESSED. oh! the joy and comfort of good friends. i think my favorite moment was Friday evening at dinner. we were sitting at a round table in the window of a downtown restaurant, laughing, talking, and i just looked around the table at all of their faces and thought how comfortable and good it was to be together again. close friends are a precious gift. corey and I are realizing that especially during this time of our life. somewhere between college and here, making good friends got harder. are we just getting old and biased? i’m not sure, but we are thanking Him for our weekend with these three.
among other things, we made the drive up to table rock state park for bluegrass on the mountain (they gather the second saturday of every month). so fun, and completely surprising. we entered the lodge to find a circle of chairs in the middle of the room. anyone who wanted could join the circle and play a song as they passed the mic around. there were tables in the back, and it was almost like pot-luck dinner. everyone brought something to share. my favorite was the strawberry cake. yummm. we got a fine samplin’ of tunes upstairs, and downstairs after pot-luck was even better! corey and i hope to visit again around christmas.
