Visitors

I got a nice surprise today. I was just getting up from my seat in Ackerman after a general recital when I saw an older lady with red hair walk into the aisle from her seat a few rows ahead of me. I was so surprised I dropped half the things I was holding and started trying to scramble over Bryn to go talk to her. Then I realized that I had dropped my convo card and, since I desperately need to get some convos out of the way, I went back to find the card before following the lady out into the lobby. Once I'd collected my things I went and found her, my best friend Jodi's grandma who lives in College Place, WA. Back in WWC days, Jodi and I would regularly go over to her grandparents house for Friday night suppers or Sabbath lunches. It was a nice way to get out of the dorm and to get to know Jodi's family better. (She has a couple aunts and uncle and cousins in College Place too who would be over to eat most times we were there.) So, back to this evening, I greeted Jodi's grandma and she knew who I was right away and said she and her husband were on a train trip that they had got as an anniversary present and they were visiting all their kids. She's in Collegedale right now to see her daughter, Dr. Penner, the voice teacher. After talking to Jodi's grandma I talked to her grandpa and he said, "Well, you're that girl that came to visit us all the time in College Place, aren't you?" It was definitely nice to see them again, even if it was just for a short time.