Lunch and shopping

Susan, Lila, Lynda Ann and Mary and I always get together when our birthdays roll around. Lynda Ann and Mary are in September, mine in August, Susan in March and Lila Mae in October. When mother was alive we would also get together for her birthday in November. The routine is usually the same. We meet about 11:00 a.m. and go some place for an early lunch and then to stores that vary from Target to Quilted Bear. This Saturday we got together for Lila Mae's birthday. The day began as pictured above. The temperature was about 46 degrees and the sky looked liked it was just waiting for us to begin our shopping to bring down the rain. Is that not a gorgeous picture of Mt. Olympus and her fall coloring?
This was a necklace that I fell in love with so it was a gift from me to me. However the picture doesn't do it justice.

We stopped at Red Robin for our lunch and as we were getting out of our cars the rain came down and it poured! We all made a mad dash to the restaurant doors. The food was delicious and the company even better. Susan gave me a Halloween card that had me laughing so hard I couldn't breathe for quite some time. From left and around the table: Lila Mae on her 79th birthday lunch, Arnette (Lila's daughter-in-law), me, Lynda Ann, Emmi, Anna (Sara's roommate), Sara, Susan and Mary.

This is a picture of Tyler, Emmi's friend who used to live in Stansbury and now lives in Herriman. He joined us as we shopped at IKEA.

Lynda Ann just getting started!

Here we are just finished paying for our purchases. We bought an array of items from birthday presents for Hayley to Christmas decorations. The fun thing was that Neal was just coming back from teaching in Orem and he stopped by and ended up paying for all my stuff. Isn't that the family saying that started during our Florida trip? "Neal's paying."

Lila and Arnette checking out while Mary and Susan are trying to get everything sorted out. This store is ginormous!!! (I know that isn't a word but it fits the description of IKEA perfectly!!

After IKEA we went to Quilted Bear to finish getting anything that we couldn't find at IKEA.

The ending of a perfect day was seeing this double rain bow as the storm let up for a few minutes and the sun peeked through the clouds just long enough for us to see a miracle of nature.