Rox and Todd

Driving to Lupi's on East Brainerd today was amazing. I rolled my window down a bit on the drive and it felt wonderful. Bryn, Ty, Jonathan and I met my sister-in-law Terrie and her kids, Tucker and Coral, as well as my sister Roxanne and her husband Todd at the restaurant. Rox and Todd had just drove up to Tennessee from Florida last night and wanted to see us at some point during the weekend. My brother Mark was going to try and come for lunch too, but he couldn't manage to get away from work. Even though Mark couldn't be there, we had a good time. I haven't seen Rox and Todd in nearly three years since Feb. 2007 when my dad and I flew down to Florida for a few days after being at a weekend church-growth seminar thing in Tulsa, OK. That was the first time I had met Todd (they got married while we were still in school and only our parents got to make the trip for the occasion). Dad, Rox, Todd and I had a great few days of doing Florida stuff, including boating to an island (and getting caught in a lightning storm on the way back), playing hours worth of Dead Kenny Uno* (definitely more intense than regular Uno), and going to a Tampa Bay Lightning game when Wayne Gretzky brought his Phoenix Coyotes into town. (Tampa won, much to Roxanne's chargrin - she was in love with Gretzky back when he played for the Edmonton Oilers when she was in high school, just like about a billion other Canadian teenage girls.) Anyway, my point is that it's been awhile since I've seen them. Bryn and Ty had actually never met Todd until today so it was nice that they finally got to talk to him a bit. Tucker, Jonathan and I had a fun time playing The Dot Game while we waited for our pizzas, but I made too many dots so we didn't actually finish before our food came. Bryn and Coral played their own game and made much fewer dots so they were done in plenty of time. So basically what I wanted to say in this post is that the company was good, and the pizza was delicious! I love Lupi's with family on a unseasonably warm Friday afternoon in January. Especially when I can drive there with my sun roof open!

*Oops, I guess it's really called South Park Uno. Oh well, here's the extra rule (taken from the ever credible Wikipedia's Uno card game entry). - The special card is called "Dead Kenny". When you play this card, you decide which player will share Kenny's bad luck. You may choose any player's hand to "kill" by having that player draw cards from the DRAW pile. The chosen player must keep drawing cards until he/she draws any card with Kenny on it.