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Shabbos meals this week were focused around the visit of some family friends of H's. They came for both dinner and lunch- parents who are in Israel visiting their son, who's spending a year in the midst of college here in yeshiva. The mother of the family was H's pre-school music teacher, and they belong to the same shul as his family, so they're a long-time connection. They turned out to be totally lovely people- very friendly and warm. The awkward part of Friday night was just that they had gone to some event at their son's yeshiva for Friday night davening, and said yeshiva is on the other side of town from our neighborhood. Then they got lost on the way over. So they didn't show up at H's place until after 9:30pm. It made for quite a late start to dinner, but since they were our only guests, we just hung out and waited for them. It turned out to be a very nice meal, just oddly timed.
They returned for lunch, along with another friend of H's from his hometown, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zodiacmg, who was looking for plans, and was pleasantly someone else who didn't know all subjects of the hometown news. (Look, I Like hometown news- engagements, babies, etc. But when I'm the only one who doesn't know the topics of conversation, it gets a smidge awkward after a while. This way, I had someone to talk to while they discussed shul politics and the like.)
Like last week, we ended up with some leftovers, but nowhere near as many (which is excellent, since unlike last week, we don't have all week to eat up said leftovers. Last week the fish soup lasted through sometime on Thursday.), and the current plan is to have some of them for lunch, as a break in the midst of our respective cleaning processes... Tomorrow will be crazy, with the shopping, cleaning, and the like. (But I have a repaired sandal- it started to break on Thursday so I took it to be fixed on Friday, and the guy said: "half an hour", so I got a sun hat, which I needed anyways, and two skirts, and now have new and exciting clothing for the holiday, something to keep the sun off my face, and a sandal that oughtn't break over yontif. All in half an hour, not too far from home.)
They returned for lunch, along with another friend of H's from his hometown, and
zodiacmg, who was looking for plans, and was pleasantly someone else who didn't know all subjects of the hometown news. (Look, I Like hometown news- engagements, babies, etc. But when I'm the only one who doesn't know the topics of conversation, it gets a smidge awkward after a while. This way, I had someone to talk to while they discussed shul politics and the like.) Like last week, we ended up with some leftovers, but nowhere near as many (which is excellent, since unlike last week, we don't have all week to eat up said leftovers. Last week the fish soup lasted through sometime on Thursday.), and the current plan is to have some of them for lunch, as a break in the midst of our respective cleaning processes... Tomorrow will be crazy, with the shopping, cleaning, and the like. (But I have a repaired sandal- it started to break on Thursday so I took it to be fixed on Friday, and the guy said: "half an hour", so I got a sun hat, which I needed anyways, and two skirts, and now have new and exciting clothing for the holiday, something to keep the sun off my face, and a sandal that oughtn't break over yontif. All in half an hour, not too far from home.)