Mennonite Girls Can Cook meets Ellen

Yesterday a representation of the Canadian Mennonite Girls Can Cook went across the line to meet our one American. . .adopted Mennonite Girl .. .
named Ellen who's blog is called The Happy Wonderer.

Anneliese, Judy, Marg, Kathy and I left from my house at 8:30 am to head down to La Conner to see the tulip festival and to meet up with Ellen at Seeds Restaraunt.

This is what a car load of bloggers looks like when it passes a field of tulips.
I just had to get out of the car and take a picture of the bunch of them . .
oh we laughed yesterday . .
a lot.

I had told Ellen who came from the southern direction of Seattle ..
"we'll aim to be at Seeds at 11:30 but give me your cell phone number just in case we get there early . . .maybe you'll get there early too."
And so she did . . .and I gave her mine.

I pulled into Seeds restaurant parking lot at 10:30 and saw Ellen pull in at the same time.

Since we were so early .. .
we did one lap up the street and back . . .
poking around the antique stores and looking for anyone who would make eye contact with six camera toting girls ..
We found a few along the way.

I was thinking later in the evening how over and over again I've been so amazed at what lovely people blogging has sent my way.
We chatted easily over lunch . .not strangers at all but rather good friends who found chatting in person even easier than from blog to blog.

I made sure they each had an opportunity for their own Life magazine from the date of their birth.

After lunch. . . Ellen drove south since she had already seen the tulip festival several weeks ago . .
and the rest of us headed to tulip town.

I'm the one that looks like a King Alfred daffodil.

I won't begin to try to convince you that the weather was just as we had hoped.
I will tell you though that it only started spitting as we were making our last 100 meter dash back the the entrance barn.

This picture was taken just as it began to rain and my camera lens was starting to feel foggy in the center.

We missed Julie and Bev who couldn't come from the valley . .
and Charlotte and Betty who are in the Prairies.

We made a special point of talking behind their back . .
and smiling as we did. .
they would have liked what we said. . .
planning a time we can all be together.

Bloggers are a unique people .. .
and because we have yet another unique blog that we share ..
we never ran out of ingredients to talk about. .
nor methods to compare . .
why we are the way we are.

We talked about the people we care about in bloggy land . .
and the opportunities we have to make new friends.

We talked about the people that visit our blogs and compared ideas of what people like to read about when they stop by.

We talked about our heritage and Ellen's and how they intersect in the land our parents were born.

It was a really good day.
I'm so blessed to have had it . . .
and I look forward to more just like that . .
with the rest of the girls.

All for now . .