"The Most Perfect Day" -- Cassie's title

I just read Cassie's blog and she titled it "The Most Perfect Day". I'm plagiarizing her title because that fits with our yesterday, too.

My day started early. I drove to the farmers' market, top down, and shivered all the way there. Here it is mid-July and I was getting chilled. (Where are you, Al Gore?) The trip was successful because I bought fresh eggs, cucumbers, corn, tomatoes, yellow squash, a melt-in-your-mouth cantaloupe, a mint plant, some fresh flowers, and peaches. Read the list and you'll see what we had for lunch.

Jo has a friend who is director of a Music Theater of Louisville production showing right now, Singing in the Rain. She scored tickets for us dead center, fourth row and they were absolutely perfect. People in the first three rows had to look up at the stage; we were exactly on eye level with the performers. It was a young cast with some of them still attending the Youth Performing Arts School but they were fantastic! They sang, they danced, they acted all with professional skill. Even the special effects were impressive. When it was supposed to rain, there really was "rain" on the stage (rice) that sounded and looked totally believable.

From there we moseyed down Bardstown Road to a restaurant that occupies what used to be one of Rob's favorite places, Andrew's. This new place is called Zaytun; it's Middle Eastern. We had gyros on the best flat bread I think I've ever eaten. In fact, I could almost just take off all the gyro ingredients and just dine on the bread. I also had hot Persian tea served in tiny glass cups. It is also served with small, compressed cubes of powdered sugar. You hold a cube between your teeth then sip the tea through it so that it literally melts in your mouth.

That little sugar hit wasn't quite enough. We had to drive on down the road a ways and stop for ice cream at a Pie and Ice Cream Kitchen. Remember, this was "The Most Perfect Day" so we sat outside in the most perfect weather. The sun was beaming down between hovering clouds and warmed us almost from the inside out but there was also a cooling breeze for balance. We just sat and savored that for a while before heading back home.

The rest of the evening was lazy. Rodburn was over here so he curled up and slept in Jerry's lap for much of the evening. I sorted old photos and slides and reminisced with Jerry. I found slides of OUR FAMILY that I didn't even know existed, some of Amanda and Rob when they were babies. What serendipity to run into those!