Small Town

It's a neat thing to live in a small town. Now granted there are times when you don't appreciate it as much. However, tonight is a night when I am appreciating it. The boys had another tball game tonight. Jason helped coach so I sat over to the side, watching and taking pictures. Two young boys from church (twins, John & Henry) came and kept me company. We left the tball field and went over to El Tapatio Mexican Restaurant. This is a restaurant that we should be part owner. We eat there at least once a week and often times two to three times a week. And we've been known to visit more than one time in a day.
Going into El Tap we always see someone we know. We went in and sat down enjoying our meal. There in the restaurant was an old friend of my husband's. He was just starting to work at UPS when Jason was working there part-time when we first got married. Man...seeing him took me back to the days when Jason & I were dating and engaged. He worked evenings so at his break time I would take him something to eat or drink. And then I would hang around for a while. I would talk to him while he would wash those big brown UPS trucks. Crazy, huh? Anyway, this guy reminded me of those days.
Then we see other friends - ones older than us with a son that just graduated high school, one friend that is on the fair board committee with Jason and tried to give us his ticket to pay, one friend that had a son that played on Jason's basketball team for a couple years, and then someone that might distantly be related or could just be friends, whichever. That one happens a lot to us.
However, the best part was the couple that we sat down and talked to for about forty-five minutes after we were finished eating - Justin & Tatum. Actually, they were my brother's friends long before they were ours. They went to school and graduated with my brother so they are younger than us. But once you get out of college, are married, working, having kids, etc. the age gaps don't really seem so big. We sat and talked about nonsense really and laughed mostly. And it was nice just enjoying a surpise visit with friends at the hometown Mexican restaurant. Yeah...I like a small town.....tonight.