Lish Visit :)

now on to happier news.
about 2 weeks ago, my good friend Lish came to visit for 3 whole days!

you see, my parents were gone for that whole week on a missions trip to michigan. they went with Ron Hutchcraft's ministry On Eagle's Wings, which is totally focused on bringing the gospel to native americans. their work is so incredible and so needed, and my parents have long supported and loved their ministry. that's why they signed up to come along on their Summer of Hope tours and cook 4 meals a day for 60 people.

while they were off serving meals to hungry kids, i was having fun. the first part of the week, i stayed with my  aunt kathy and we had fun just hanging out and watching movies and such. then for the second part of the week, i drove up to wisconsin to pick up lish.

i got there mid morning, and since we were both hungry, we went to lish's favorite breakfast place. it's an old railroad car that's been turned into a diner. it was such a fun place and had really good food. here we are:

lish said they had huge portions, so we decided to split a vegetarian breakfast burrito. only lish is a vegetarian, and i am not. so i got a side of meat to eat with my half. only it looks like it's the only thing i'm eating.
as a side note, i dont think i've ever eaten that many veggies for breakfast in my entire life. and i doubt i ever will again. (even though it was incredibly delicious) 

here we are outside the diner

once we were sufficiently stuffed, we drove back to my house. after dropping off her stuff, we became hungry again. so i took her to my favorite fast food place ever, called Just Kabbobs (but they dont sell just kabbobs. they sell non kabbob items as well). it's a little family owned restaurant that's super cute inside and has large amounts of delicious food at good prices. since lish is vegetarian, we ordered pita bread with sides of tzidiki sauce and hummus. it was delicious.

afterwards, we went shopping and bought several different things, including Gnomeo and Juliet and super cute aprons which we wore for much of the time we spent together. i would include a picture, but they're still on lish's camera. maybe later.

we got home with just enough time to make some artisan bread and eat it in the car as we drove to church. after church, we again stopped by Just Kabbobs for more of their amazing hummus.

the next day, thursday, we went to kline creek farm. it's an old farm that my county owns and operates as a free step back into time thing. volunteers dress in 1800s style clothing and give tours and take care of the animals. here's lish, hard at work behind the plough:

we also did some more shopping, and ended the night with a movie from redbox. it was a good movie, but both lish and i were appalled at the fact that someone would make the cover of a movie called "red", blue.
just look at our disgust:

on friday, lish and i put together a care package for our friend tatiana. we filled it with stuff we had bought for her over the past few days and included some notes and drawings. we also made these awesome tie-die colored cakes in mason jars for her and her mom. unfortunately, they were no longer edible when they arrived, but the pictures of when they were made are awesome! ... if i had them... which i dont, because they're still on lish's camera. but eventually... maybe... someday i'll get them on here... somehow.
but in the mean time, here's a picture of tatiana wearing some of the stuff we sent her. she asked that the pictures she sent wouldnt be put on facebook, but luckily, this is not facebook ;)

she loves the color orange

after pouring so much energy and love into one care package, we were both thoroughly famished.
and where do you take a famished vegetarian? to a vegetarian fast food place!!!! it turned out to be a huge adventure (which i devoted an entire blog post to on my other blog. http://www.oneridicalousponytail.blogspot.com/), but right now all i'll say is that it turned out to be a fantastic indian restaurant and we had a ton of fun trying different free samples and talking to the owner and learning how to pronounce the items on the menu. we had so much fun that we even blasted the slumdog millionare soundtrack all the way home and listened to contemporary bollywood on pandora while we ate. it was an unforgettable experience, and one we've both agreed will have to be repeated whenever she visits.

after dinner, we packed up lish's stuff and cleaned up the house a bit for my parents' return. then we packed up the car and drove to lish's house. after an unintentional detour (ie wrong turn) and a stop at 711 for one final slurpee and to eat some of our delicious mason jar tie-die cake, we arrived at lish's house.

it was too late at night for me to drive back home, but not so late that either of us were tired enough to sleep. so we watched jurassic park 3 (i'd never seen any of them before) and i stayed the night before leaving in the morning.  and thus ended my awesome visit with my very good friend lish.