Vox Meet Up?

We'd just come home from the pet store. I was looking for a PH meter for cheese making purposes. I'm trying to go chemical free with cultures like buttermilk, which I'm not afraid of anymore. When I was a kid it tasted horrible but since I had some here, why not taste it with a more ahem mature pallet (Yeah right!). It tastes like liquid sour cream. Since I wouldn't drink sour cream, I doubt I'd drink that either but it's a nice low fat substitute for using it in things like mashed potatoes. DeWitte was looking for snails because his fish tank looks like the pool in the camp ground in the first National Lampoon's Vacation and Nathan was looking for anything he might possible be able to talk us into buying. That included a cat toy and some treats for the rabbit. Alright, maybe the rabbit treats were my idea.

Anyhow, DeWitte and Nathan cuddled up on the couch to watch "The Incredible Mr. Limpit". Don Knots, what an actor, I'm shocked that guy never won an Oscar and I sat down at my computer to check my email. I had a PM from Janie, they were on their way through town, did we want to meet up at the mall. Heck yes!

Now, ideally, in a situation like that, I'd have been on a sand and water diet with a little corn meal thrown in for added nutritional value for about a month, I'd have had my hair cut, colored and highlighted and would have had a brand new wardrobe but I didn't have that kind of time. Instead I put some goo stuff in my hair, told Nathan that if he could find his shoes in less than fifteen min. I'd buy him a Build-A-Bear, too, and we were out the door.

I have to admit I was a little nervous. I've never met anyone, well besides DeWitte, that I know online in real life before. Not that I was worried that Janie and Steve were serial killers or anything, they've got too many kids to get away with something like that. It's that kind of thing kids turn you in for. Well, I had no reason to be nervous, it was great! We met at Build-A-Bear and then went to the food court for drinks, non-alcoholic, of course, they had a lot of driving still to do. It was a ton of fun, they're just as nice as they are online and their kids are just charming but OMG...the entire family is so skinny! The whole bunch of them could fit in a leg of my pants, they're that thin. If they were here during a hurricane, I'd have to tie them all down with rope just so they didn't blow away. I don't know how you even get a metabolism like that but if anybody knows, I'll take two please.

Anyway, we sat and talked until they had to leave. Next time I hope they can stay longer, maybe come over to the house so I can fatten them up on homemade cheese and pasta. Yeah, I'm gonna be one of those old ladies, I can tell already.

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Now, my only question is, does this count as a Vox meet up, because I want free stuff, too.