Christmas in July!

I just got the best news today! My all time greatest bestest friend in the whole wide world is coming to visit me this July! I am so over the top excited the only thing I can compare it to is the feeling you had as a child waiting for Christmas to arrive. I don't get to see my friend that often because she lives in another country on another continent a whole big ocean away! I miss her terribly and the joy she brings into my life is unexplainable.

The bonus of the trip is that her significant other is visiting as well. It is very rare to like your best friend's new squeeze but I can genuinely say that I love hers, the joy he brings to my girlfriend, and he just makes me smile. He is also one of the easiest house guests we have ever had. Being from a Scandinavian country he was completely taken in by all of our American excesses. I managed to impress him with Costco, factory outlet malls and the many many wineries we have within 5 minutes of our home. During their stay with us we enjoyed numerous trips to bulk warehouses, massive amounts of fresh crab meat, and never ending glasses of wine. It was two wonderful weeks of shopping, rich food and delicious wine. I had died and gone to hostess heaven.

So now I have the opportunity to not only redo our last visit, but to make this one even better. When they were here last time, we had just moved into our home and we were fairly unfamiliar with what our area had to offer. Two years later and I am practically a native and I am ready to show off our town and the awesome people that live here. Of course there will be trips to the wineries, but now I know people and people know me! There will be an evening of dancing at the greatest biker bar I have ever gone to! New restaurants to try, live music venues and home BBQ. I can't wait!

So to that big "Santa" in the sky, thanks for my Christmas in July.