Cat, Gidget, GiGi...Part Two!

Update: I have things I need to post but.....I refuse to post another thing. I was just on the phone with GiGi (who really does exist even though it's looking doubtful), and explained how her blogging absence makes me look...well, like a weird-o stalking blogger mom who imagined the whole weekend! Who may have copied and pasted photos to appear as if I have a friend named GiGi. She laughs at this because she's been thinking y'all will think that too as she's been out running all over town and not blogging!

So not until the Gi says she had fun (and Gi, I mean FUNNNN) will I post again. She had fun, I'm telling you....fun fun fun with a capital FUN!

We went to Fritz's at Hallmark's Crown Center Friday. Fritz's serves dinner via a toy train that runs the entire restaurant and stops, delivers the meals (which were ordered at the booth on a phone!) and goes away. Then we played on the giant toys...sadly it was freezing cold this year, so we didn't play too long!

This weekend went by far too quickly for me, I miss everyone already. I can't wait to get in Cat's new Suburban and drive down to GiGi's. *sigh*

Click the video for all the pics from the second night:

Worth another peek:

Cat, Gidget at Fritz's

GiGi, J waiting for dinner...think J forgot what to do with the straw!

Trinity, I adore my bag...all the way from Indonesia. You truly are a very special friend and I adore you! And the bag, the necklace and the CD!

Do you see a pattern here with Gi & her tongue?

It's a cow, I know...Cat's modeling on a cow. Hey! We are in MO!

December Is JUST Around The Bend.....And GiGi Is Coming!

Just awhile ago I stumbled upon a new blog , Gremlin Wrangler, (new to me, that is) and she is doing a contest. Not just ANY contest, though, she's an artist. And I couldn't resist this one, I entered it! She takes photos and sketches amazing likenesses of the person in the photo and I know JUST who I'll have sketched. I love personalized things at Christmastime--there's about nothing better. She's pretty funny too, mosey over there if you're a loser on a Friday night, sitting around reading blogs. Okay, I'm a loser sitting around too, but still....go over!

This is the Country Club Plaza here in Kansas City in the Christmas season, all lit up!

And this is the courtyard at Hallmark's Crown Center at Christmas, with the ice skating rink in the background. Note the wooden toyland down there?
Yup, that'd be the one I posted pics of a few months ago, with us last December playing in the toy yard and dining in the train car.

Why you wonder? She must be simply uninspired and out of ideas so she's re-posting. Kind of like television in January? Naww....I had a wonderful phone conversation with my BFF Gigi (remember, I met her at Silver Dollar City this summer?). Gigi, her husband and two little ones are coming to town! This is even BETTER than Santa Claus coming to town. Almost.

We talked about it and I THINK it has been decided her family will come to Kansas City (they live in Springfield, so it's not a big drive) and we'll do Crown Center upp big. Along with my BFTRLF Cat--she and her family will join us. I sure hope they don't try to drive the car, though, that's MY job. I am the driver. And it's MY little house, but you can come in and look out the windows with me, but you have to know it's my little house.

I'm soooo excited. It doesn't take much, I know, I know. But I still cannot wait for them to come. I think I mentioned it to GiGi, so it won't be wrong for me to let you know she and her husband have generously agreed being a guest in my home for two nights was worth $300.00. Easy. If not more. And dinner...they're buying dinner for us ALL (Cat, you too!). Isn't GiGi grand?

Again....who says bloggers aren't real friends? I contend my blog friends are more real with me at times than folks I come face to face with all the time and I hope I get the opportunity to meet ALL of mine over time. Maybe. I dunno--now I've gone and scared myself.

Wordless Wednesday

(briefly narrated...)

A half a year ago today:

I threw up the deuces in a miniature house at the Hallmark Crown Center,

and we busted outta there in the tiny wooden car with a giant drum on our tail...
Ooops...did I embarrass teenaged Cody? Pshh! They should hire him...keep weirdos out of the courtyard Christmas in an upscale shopping center....clearly we upped the class factor. Again.