Old Friends, New Neighbors

This story has been months in the making but seemed to happen fast anyway. Several months ago, Judy, who is a friend from our youth, emailed to ask my opinion about the best place to live. She thought that we might have an opinion since we've done so much traveling. You can probably imagine my response. I tried to be fair to the whole US but I really just had to brag about Chattanooga. After that email I didn't hear from her for months and months.

Then, a couple weeks ago she emailed to say her sister, Jan, was coming here with her husband and their Mom to check out the area. They arrived last Sunday and came over for dinner. It was sure fun to reconnect and meet John for the first time.

They have spent the week here, checking out our neck of the woods. As planned, we met again for dinner last night. As it turns out they hate this area... NOT! After taking a good look around, they have decided to move here! They have rented a place already! They're going back to Grand Junction to wrap up business, pack and move! They expect to be back within two months.

Judy will be coming for a visit soon too and she's already convinced she is moving here too. What fun!

This is kind of funny to me because it was Judy and her sister Jill who were instrumental in Larry and me moving to Santa Rosa 30 years ago. Now, we're instrumental in them moving here.

Now... who else wants to come!!

Here we are at Olive Garden. Ben was working and couldn't join us. (Ironically, he was somewhere in this building because he works at Olive Garden when not busy with real estate.)