Good Food and Even Better Friends!

On Tuesday, I had the pleasure of having very special lunch plans.

For years, I have been a member of various Jeremy Mayfield fan boards. Throughout these years, I have "met" many very special people from all over the country and Canada. Occasionally, I've had the pleasure of actually meeting some of these people in person.

I meet most at the race track, on race weekends. I live a few miles from a huge, popular track, so two times a year, I usually get the privilege of meeting up with at least a couple of my friends. Last year, I was thrilled that a few of my buddies were brave enough to come and see my new house! Two friends were really brave, and actually ate my cooking!
Now that's courage right there!
(That was also the day of the infamous PEEP/Microwave explosion.)

Tuesday, however, was a little different. In a sort-of a spur-of-the-moment deal, I had the opportunity to meet up with one of my really, really close friends, Kathy and her husband, Bud!

Kathy and Bud were returning home from a trip to Florida to see their son, and were going to be driving through Atlanta near my workplace. So, after realizing we were going to be "so close" to each other.... there was NO WAY we were going to miss this opportunity! (Actually, we had a couple of other opportunities within the same week, but a funeral and a broken toe got in the way.)

We decided to meet at an all-American favorite place...

CRACKER BARREL

I mean, who doesn't LOVE some Cracker Barrel?

We were supposed to meet around noon....but somebody **cough*Kathy*cough** forgot about the time change, and we ended up meeting around 12:45. It was like we have known each other for our entire lives! We had lunch full of hugs (a Southern tradition), smiles, stories and laughs! Oh, and green beads, too.

It was St. Patrick's Day after all!

I'm mad a Bud. He could have tried just a little bit harder to make me SKINNY in that picture!

(Just kidding Bud!)

Our time together was FANTASTIC, but just WAAAAAY TOO SHORT! Soon, I had to go back to my wonderful, windowless office, and Kathy and Bud had to be on their way back north. After more hugs and some tears, we parted ways.

I already miss ya'll! I can't wait until we are able to meet again...
but for a MUCH LONGER TIME!

OK, now the question for my wonderful readers....

Have you ever met any of your "Internet" buddies?