Off The Top: Best Friends & Birthday Lunches

My best friends Nancy and Kathy and I always take each other out for birthday lunch. We have been friends since I moved to Preston years ago. Nancy was my jogging partner for years then we started walking together. Kathy joined us for summer biking back who knows when.

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By the time I started having children they were finishing their families so some of our children are the same ages. Many an early morning we could be found on the corner of 8th E. and the highway, the place we split up before returning home. There we talked for a half an hour or more, when we could have bike more miles. Instead we discussed life in general, kids and how we all needed to get jobs,

Kathy and I started subbing for the school district and Nancy, our math brain, ran her own tax business. Later Kathy, the Home EC major, started teaching part-time at West side school district, I found a part -time job as a para professional at the junior high school. But we have managed to have many early morning walks and biking together in the summers as our lives progressed?? over the years.

In the past few years Nancy, the exercising guru, goes to the gym then joins us at the track. Anyway things started changing when I spent the summer with mother and we could no longer walk together. Then this year I started working full time at USU barber shop making it hard to find time together. I point all this out to show the importance of getting together for our birthday lunches. I have a November birthday and Nancy was a special Jan lst birthday baby. She won all the prizes for being the first baby born in Franklin County. Kathy's birthday follows Nancy's by two days.

Last year their January birthdays were on hold until after Tax season and we celebrated in after April 15th. This year things kept coming up so we didn't get my November lunch done. Oh no, if we don't hurry and celebrate it will be April again. Soooooooooooo We celebrated all our birthdays Tuesday Jan 12. Nancy and Kathy picked me up at USU round about. Yea, I loved the curbside pickup service, no waiting for a bus, or walking to the transit center. Nancy & Kathy, you area hired!

We ate at Chili's in Logan. Sorry Preston "Trax" we didn't support you this time.
Here's Nancy and Kathy

Kathy and I. We didn't think to employ bystanders to take a trio pic.

A little food history to whet your appetite. There's chicken somewhere under that coating.

Nancy's dish

Kathy's plate/. You can see they eat more healthy than I.

Since we mentioned it was a birthday dinner, they waiter gave us free dessert. Sorry no pics. We were too busy swimming in chocolate. A wonderful warmed chocolate cake, with ice cream and choc coated.

We ate early so the evening was ahead of us so we headed to the Cache Valley Mall and stopped at Dillards.
Anyone want a big watch?