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on the road ~ day 3
The day’s not through yet, but I just have to write a quick post about meeting Meredith, Holly and Joanne. We met this morning at the hotel where I’m staying, and decided to go to Java Guru for coffee. My goodness ~ to be honest, you’d think we’d all been friends for a million years. There was no awkwardness or hesitation at all. How lovely to meet in person and find that these 3 ladies are exactly who they say they are on their blogs!
We sat at Java Guru for about 2 hours and just talked about whatever came up. Then we decided to go to The Black-Eyed Pea for lunch ~ Holly’s favorite (thank you Holly for suggesting it ~ lunch was very good!). We talked and talked and talked ~ I think we touched on just about every subject under the sun. It was fantastic ~ a wonderful time with sister believers. I don’t think I’ve ever met other women with whom the conversation so easily flowed.
Joanne gave us really pretty Moleskine notebooks she had sewn some material onto ~ I’ll have pictures of the ladies and the notebook Joanne gave me when I get home. Joanne has the most amazing charm bracelet ~ she said there’s about 75 charms on it, and she has had it since she was 7 years old. What an amazing collection of memories she carries around with her every day. I imagine she has people ask her about it often. I have only read one of Joanne’s books (so far), but her “voice” in her books is the same as in real life.
Sweet Meredith has been fighting an illness alongside her daughters. I’m thankful she felt well enough to come today. She has lost most of her voice, and I’m praying that she will feel 100% soon. Mer, next time we get together we’ll let you talk more than the rest of us, I promise! 
Holly is just as dear and sweet as I expected her to be from reading her blog. What I didn’t expect was her sense of humor! She had us all laughing frequently. Sometimes she was even in danger of one of us laughing so abruptly that we might accidentally spit our coffee or food on her ~ I’m pleased to tell you though that we managed to keep the drinks and the food in our mouths.
You know, I have to marvel at the power of the internet, and the amazing way our awesome God uses it for His glory. There I sat with 3 ladies who I had never actually met before, and yet I felt comfortable, and the conversation was easy. If you know me, you know I’m not a big social person. I don’t “do” squadron wives’ get-togethers, and I don’t usually do any of the officer’s wives’ things, and participating in Bible studies can be difficult for me when there are too many people involved. I can be uncomfortable in groups. To me, more than 2 is a group!
Anyway, thank you Meredith, Holly and Joanne for making today a pure joy. I enjoyed each of you, and I truly enjoyed the time we were able to spend together. God is good all the time ~ He blessed me tremendously today with your sweet company. And I can’t wait to do it again!
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Well, gee, you said just about everything I wanted to say–except all the nice things about YOU!
I had such a ball today. “Balm” to my soul, to use a Holly-ism. God is so good, isn’t he? And how amazing that he uses technology to connect sisters in him!
The girls went BONKERS for their scarves–immediately put them on, flung the ends over their shoulders like little divas and have yet to take them off. Thank you notes will be in the mail!
Thank you for coming, for letting us know you were here, for giving us your time on your vacation. It was such a treat–one I’ve been looking forward to with great expection–expectation that was more than met, but totally exceeded!
And now we’re FTF (face to face) BFFs–’cause it does feel like we’ve all been friends forever.
Much, much love,
Joanne
Trish, it was SO fun meeting you and spending the day together! I loved it. And Sarah and Abbey LOVE their scarves. They opened them in the car on the way home from school and we just took some photos for you (and the blog, of course!). Thank you for lunch too! You’re so sweet, and I can’t wait to see you again…in Arkansas!
Much love,
Meredith
Wow–it was such a wonderful day, wasn’t it? Next time I hope to have spewing coffee and food everywhere
hee hee!
You are such a blessing to me Trish…my, I am so thankful for a new friend, who is wise and fun and caring!
Love you!
holly
PS I’ll post some pictures in a few minutes
I’m so glad Mer was able to make the get together, Trish. I just came from her site and I love the photo she posted. My only complaint is that I’m not in it! I can’t wait until the circumstances work out so that I can get on that train again.
Oh Barb, we surely did miss you! But we figured since your granddaughter is expected on Monday, we’d give you some grace.
The next time I’m in Colorado we’ll get together. If I wasn’t expecting a granddaughter myself in July I would be in Colorado ~ more about that in a future post, though. 
How FUN! Sounds like a great visit.
Praying for you and your family, Trish.
How FUN! Sounds like a great visit.
Praying for you and your family, Trish.
Just stoppin’ by to let you know that I was thinking of you
Have a wonderful day!
~Tamara
Hi Trish, I’m praying for you today! Much love to you, friend!!
holly
Tamara, I’ve been thinking of you, too. Praying for you as well.
Holly, sweet Holly ~ I do so appreciate your prayers. (I love that pic of you and Chris in front of the Christmas tree, by the way.) What a lovely trip we had ~ my lunch with you, Meredith and Joanne was the highlight of it for me. Thank you again for your company and friendship. I can’t wait to do it again!