Today Mom’s sisters Barbara, Linda, Linda’s husband Jeff and assorted children and the star of the show, Grandma Alice, came to visit.
As I’m sure you suspect, there’s a story.
Mom got a text from Barbara saying they’d show up here at Lake Louisa SP this evening. Not a clue of actual what time, just in the evening.
So dinner had to happen fast. Have you tried to caramelize onions fast? Can it be done? Eventually we had onion soup, non-caramelized, complete with toasted and buttered baguettes. And it was mightily good, even if not caramelized. And in the process we burned the first batch of batch of baguettes, slopped butter on the backup baguettes and soldiered on.
Eventually we got a call from Barbara saying that the rangers wouldn’t let them into the park, which had closed about an hour earlier. They could sit in the parking lot but not enter. Mom’s not one to be easily deterred so she set off down the road. I’m a little more practical so I put out the fire, closed the door and grabbed a flashlight.
Lake Louisa ranger, whoever you are, when you learned that Mom was walking 3.5 miles down the road to see her family and let them in, may you be truly blessed.