Adjustments

Something that will take some getting used to: Randomly running into my sister and her fiance in Sioux Falls.

You see, they used to live about two hours north in a tiny little small town. So seeing them had to be an intentional act. But then he got a job in Sioux Falls and has been living in town for about a month now. And although my sister has to finish out the school year before she can officially move down, she's in town quite frequently on the weekends (wedding planning is busy work, you know). Now, before they began the process of moving to town, any time they were back for the weekend was cause for a family get together (or two or three)--because that's just the way my family rolls. But since the novelty of them being in town is wearing off, pre-organized family plans are much less frequent (yay!). However, Sioux Falls is only so big. And apparently we like to frequent the same places.

Friday night Darrell and I were enjoying a bona fide date night--dinner reservations at one of our favorite restaurants (Bros Brasserie) and then plans to go dancing (ballroom-style, not bump-and-grind college-style). As we're walking downtown from dinner to the dancing, who should we run into but Amanda and Nick. We shared a laugh, then went on our separate ways.

Saturday afternoon Darrell and I actually had some free time so we headed out to run some errands (the baby's room isn't going to get ready on its own). We head into Target, and there are Amanda and Nick--again (we also later ran into one of my cousins--talk about a family reunion). This time, bumping into them was a little bit more fortuitous--we had just purchased a recliner at a furniture store, but were having them hold it until Sunday when we could get my brother's truck to pick it up. Well, turns out Amanda and Nick were out running errands in Nick's truck, and they were just about to wrap their errands up (as were we), so we made plans to meet up with them to pick up the recliner. And then since it was getting late, we decided to have dinner together since none of us had plans. Nothing like a little spontaneity, right?

It was certainly a fun--and convenient for us--chance encounter, and one that is certainly likely to happen again. But I suppose that's okay--after all, they are family, and we do like them... Most of the time, at least  :-)