"Friends"

The "Friends" in the title has nothing to do with the generally accepted definition of the word. This Friends is a fun beading/jewelry supply place on Frankfort Avenue. Amanda is making lanyards for ID tags for her coworkers and needed more supplies. We browsed through the store and, since we were the only customers at the time, could just spread out our selections and take time to really dig into the baskets of loose beads. The guy watching the store today is a jeweler and was watching the shop for the owners who were out of town. They had told him to use his own judgment about prices so we got some good BARGAINS!! Yea for bargains. He charged us "close enough" to whatever they were priced.

Between Amanda and me, I was the only one who had the correct change to pay him so I paid for both her purchases and mine. To pay us back, she took Jerry and me out to lunch at Annie Cafe, a Vietnamese restaurant in our neighborhood. Shawn met us there and once we got our orders straight (waitress had almost everything mixed up), had a nice, leisurely meal.