And sometimes, it can be a great treat!

Earlier this week I was doing my usual scan of the top news that shows up on my feed everyday and I saw that my friend Rachel was taking a trip... how nice for her.  A little while later, she posted something about a cruise ship she was touring... lovely.  And yet later* she posted something about being in South Florida... hmmm.

Now I got inquisitive and shot her a message asking whereabouts in South Florida she might be and she told me she was in Miramar.  That sounded familiar, but honestly a lot of places sound familiar that aren't really very close at all... so I decided to look it up.  Ten miles away!

To give a brief background, Rachel (commonly known as "Tweedlebug") and I met while we were both serving on the ministry team for a Christian nightclub in Michigan.  To hear her tell the story you would think we went for a long time without actually meeting and connecting but I seem to remember her always being around and over time we got closer and closer.  We connected not only over our love of Jesus but also our interest in classic movie musicals and art.  While the sum total of our time spent together is probably negligible at best, it was good quality time and she's the kind of person I can see again after being apart for four or five years and we're able to pick up right where we left off...

...Which brings us to last night.  She was less than two miles away so we got together and enjoyed dinner at LeTub before we wandered the beach looking for the perfect sand** and nightcapped the evening with ice cream from Kilwins***.

Here's a picture from our reunion... I hope we don't have to wait nearly as long to get to see each other next time: