Friends Forever

About a month or so ago Andy came to me and told me that his old mission companion and wife from the Philippines were going to come and visit us for a few days.... I was not too thrilled about the idea because I knew Andy would still have to go to school and work which would leave me alone to entertain these people who did not speak English that well, but I said "okay" (with only small amounts of murmuring)!!

On the day they were to arrive I got the house all clean and headed to my book club meeting that night. I got back home around 9:30 pm and shortly after our doorbell rang. I thought, wow, they are early (their plane was not supposed to land until 10:00pm) I opened the door and low and behold my two best friends from High School were standing on the doorstep. I was totally blown away with confusion and excitement... see video below.

So the company that I was expecting/slightly dreading from the Philippines turned out to be my girls, Emily and Mindy!! I was so thrilled, I could not believe it!! They had worked it all out with Andy without me suspecting a thing. I totally fell for it, but I'm glad I did because it was a beyond awesome surprise!!

We had such a good time together. We stayed up late almost every night catching up on life and remembering old memories!! We visited the Hill Cumorah, the Sacred Grove, and Niagara Falls.

The Hill Cumorah Visitor Center

Emily and Baby Jackson

Mindy

The sun was setting on our hike up the hill

The Monument at the top

Joseph Smith's home


In the Sacred Grove

We stopped to take pictures of the Palmyra Temple with all the Fall colors

Niagara Falls -- it was freezing!

Oh and we went out to eat at the Cheese Cake Factory

Another fun thing we did while they were here was sing together. Back in High School we sang together in a trio, so I got out our old CD and we re-learned an old song called the The Olive Tree, then we sang it in the Sacred Grove (we had the sister missionary giving us the tour record it for us)


Emily posted on her blog an old picture of us 3 girls when we were in 9th grade, so I went through some of my old photos and found a few that I thought I would share:)

High School Softball

High School Choir (Susan - front row, last one in the left. Emily - 2nd row, last one on the left. Mindy - front row, 3rd one in on the right.)

I think we were in our first year of college here

A fun girls trip to Emily's cabin!

Thank you so much Emily and Mindy for coming to visit me, I had a blast! You have started a great tradition... where should we go next?! Love you both!