A Beautiful Day in (someone else's) Neighbourhood - part 1...

It really was a beautiful day - in someone else's - neighbourhood!!! Mark and I had, yet another busy day!! We were out of the house by 10:30 and headed to Oshawa for a BLOGGY lunch. We were meeting
Kathy and Joel, Catherine, Doris and Dan and Rhonda and Joel!! What a GREAT lunch we had!! I had previously met Kathy and Catherine, but this was my first meeting with everyone else.
From left to right is: Dan, Doris, Mark, me, Catherine, Kathy and Joel. Rhonda and Josh were there but asked not to have their pictures posted. It actaully worked out well as poor Josh had to take pictures with everyone else's cameras!! Note to self for future refernce, don't stand in front of glass covered art when using a flash!

Then of course we had to get pictures of just the boys and just the girls. So here you have Joel, Mark and Dan. They all put their arms like that on their own - kinda cute!!
Then, of course, there is a picture of the girls. From left to right is Kathy, Doris, me and Catherine.

How great it was to meet everyone and see everyone again. We are incredibly lucky to have the support network that we do with the people that we meet and get to know online. It almost felt like we had known everyone for a long time already. I am not doing a good job of putting this into words, without it sounding corny, but it was like getting together with friends that we have had for a long time!! I cannot say enough good things about everyone that was there. The only 'complaint' that I might have would be that there wasn't enough time to talk and that it was hard to talk with everyone when you are at a long table. Of course, the solution to this, is to do it again another day!!

We were sorry to have to leave (after 3 hours), but we had to head to our second event in - someone else's - neighbourhood!! Poor Mark was sleeping when the original invitation came in (or when I read it in my e-mail) and I jumped off the computer and on to him in bed saying "Guess what - the 'bloggy' people are getting together for lunch and they have invitied both of us"!! Mark, in his sleepy state, said that sounds great honey - when is it? I responded that it was on a day when we were in Oshawa anyway for Josh's birthday party AND our friends Christmas party...what's a third event in one day when you already have 2???

After leaving the restaurant, Mark said, when we get home you are going to have to show me everyone's blogs and they were all so nice and that he really enjoyed himself - as did I...Thank you to Kathy and Joel, Catherine, Doris and Dan and Rhonda and Josh for making it such an enjoyable lunch!!!

Present pictures coming in part 2...