Oh, Machiavelli’s is too wonderful for words. Truly.

And Amy was delightful.

And Allison is totally nuts. Hard to explain the thoughts going on when one is minding their own business in the bathroom stall, only to look up and find a camera lens pointing at them… I had to just be thankful she was doing it over the stall door instead of under. That would be a bit more awkward.

Machiavelli’s is amazing. Honestly. I highly recommend that everyone make the trip at least once in their life to try the delicious food at this restaurant.

Amy sounds wonderful. I love fun people. And you two are definitely nuts. NUTS! And I’m not. At all.

What a hoot! You two are so funny. I can’t recall meeting someone in an unusual way. I do remember going into a rest room in a department store with my friend Lorraine. I walked in one stall, she in the one next to me. I heard an explosive noise from the stall, reached under the stall, grabbed Lorraine’s ankle and said, ” Wow I’m glad you didn’t have to hold that in much longer” There was silence.

I left the stall. went to wash my hands and realized that Lorraine was already washing her. I looked at the stall where I thought she was and the door was closed. Lorraine was trying so hard not to laugh. She looked at me and said, “I went into another stall that one wasn’t clean enough for me’ I was mortified. Who was that poor woman I had just taumatized? I waited for the woman to exit the stall so I could apologize and explain but she wouldn’t come out! I finally just left.

LOLROF… that is the funniest story I’ve ever heard.. I couldn’t imagine what I’d do if somebody in a public bathroom reached under and grabbed my ankle… let alone commented… LOL… I am going to laugh myself to sleep..

Kathy, that is absolutely hilarious!

Our bathroom break probably won’t be quite so memoral, but it was pretty funny. Craig says the whole store could hear us laughing. I think he exaggerates. 🙂

I’m sure that Senator Craig from Idaho had the same intentions with the “wide stance” – he probably felt like grabbing the sherriff’s ankle to be supportive just like you Aunt Kathy…

I just wish someone cared enough about me to take a snapshot of me on the john in a strange place…NOT! Very funny!

Well, what I said was the whole back half of the store could hear you laughing, but since Molbaks is almost the size of a Walmart, half of it is like all of most stores. You were very audible.

Re: Machiavelli’s – it did indeed live up to it’s hype, though it’s even smaller than expected. However, they do get you in and out, so even waiting may not be so bad. The food, however, is so worth waiting for, it was outstanding.

Kathy, Paul says it sounds like I said you takinig the picture was “not very funny.” That’s not what I meant. Didn’t express that very well. Yes! Very funny! Paul says that story is so you!

I love this story, and I love the woman who plopped down next to Kris! and by the way Kristin looks amazing….I really like your hair, you look beautiful.

Hysterical! I love that story. 🙂 She sounds fabulous.

The Giver is actually a trilogy. The second book is called Gathering Blue, and the third book is called Messanger. I can’t wait to read the other two!

Craig – I took the picture…. Kathy grabbed the lady’s leg! It was all very funny. Wish you had been there 🙂

Kathy has promised to update her own blog soon…. hopefully this week??

I miss Lorraine, she moved to Hawaii with her family several years ago. We had been described as a cross between Lucy and Ethel or Thelma and Louise. When I hear Allison and Michelle recall their fun times I think of Lorraine. When I hear Allison and Kris talk about their sister experiences I think of my sisters in England. I have two of the funniest sisters in the world, especially my younger sister. When we all attended my nephew’s graduation from Cambridge University, my younger sister found the weather to be rather chilly. She came to my room and asked to borrow some of my “mormon” underwear. I waffled a bit, until she said,”some religion that is, you’d rather see your sister catch her death of cold than share your special underwear!” I look at the photographs taken at the time and have to smile knowing what lies under my Roman Catholic sister’s designer outfit!

One more thing, my mother claimed that Eunice did not wear underwear but “eye-patches”. Hence the need for my garments, although I no longer wear them.

Eye patches… LOL… Speaking of the mormon underwear – I was sharing a hotel room with a gal from New York many years ago (we were attending an Arbonne convention) and she just fell in love with my underwear… wondered where she could get some. Was very disappointed when I told her she’d have to beomce a Mormon to get them…. Her appreciation for them totally amazed me, since I always found them highly unattractive and rather uncomfortable, simply hated wearing them and wish I’d stopped wearing them years and years before I did…. If I’d been smart, I’d have sold them to her right then and gone out and bought myself some cute bikini briefs.

Who in their right mind would find garments attractive? I’m with you Allsion, kept ’em on way too long!

Loved your stories and yes Kriss you SO look BEAUTIFUL.

Kristen, I have been looking at your photo’ again. You really do look beautiful. Your mother is a very beautiful woman and I think you and Allison certainly inherited her best features. Lucky you. I look like my father, a long dead alcoholic, except I don’t have any tatoos. He was covered in them. Of course, he was in the Royal Navy for years and then had a long career in the merchant navy.

You girlz are crazy, I can picture that whole Molbaks scene perfectly. I want to eat at that restaurant someday!! Kristin looks great in that pic, just gorgeous!

Chris, there’s always an air mattress waiting for you here 🙂 At least you wouldn’t have to worry about a cat whining and mauling you all through the night on a future trip……

I don’t know anyone who has as much fun as you and Kristin do……

Great story. Amy is indeed a spontaneous, fun and thoughtful person…did she ever learn how to hang glide?