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Hello blogging friends! I finally broke away from this situation I'm in for at least 24hours to see my Stitchy Gramma! Of course, in true Stitch fashion, this happened last weekend and I'm just now writing about it. LOL Anyway, some background on Stitchy Gramma. Her name is Carolyn and she comes from a board that I belong to. She adopted me as her stitchy grand-daughter when we did an exchange together. Supposedly I sent her such a fun and extravagant package, (her words not mine) that she just had to get to know me better. Upon finding out that I was a mere 27 and she was in her well beyond 40s, she starting calling me her Grand-daughter. Hehe. The rest is history....

Anyway, she had to come home, as she lives in Aussie now with her new hubby Ross, to stay with her mother who was ill. I had found this out about a week or two ago and got very excited as well I live in her state now! Yay!! So we arranged it so that I could come up there to stay for an evening and she would pay for everything. *insert blush face* Believe it or not, it's very hard for me to accept people doing things like that for me. So after my trek across the US, driving the three hours to see her would be a piece of cake especially since I pass a Russell Stover's outlet on the way! Tee hee!

I left Saturday afternoon rather late due to an unexpected, "HELP! Please come take the kids for a while because I need to go do some things" *grumble*. I had scheduled myself to leave around 1pm so that I would arrive there around dinner time. Gramms had made pot roast and homemade mashed potatoes. You bet your life I was going to partake in that!!!! Hehe. Well after the "kid session", it was about 4 when I left so I didn't get there till about 7pm. =/ I arrived at her mom's house later than that as once again those stupid internet instructions led me astray. Pardon a minor rant, but do they actually research the towns to make sure that the roads ACTUALLY EXIST!?!?! Rant over...

So I was on my cell saying I had just arrived, getting my stuff out of the car only to realize that she was standing right next to my car. Eep! LOL We hugged and went inside to gab, meet Mom and of course EAT! So after dinner, Gramms pulls out a surprise. She had asked me what my favorite dessert was and I said yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Well, Gramms is diabetic so I wasn't sure if I would actually get that and didn't want her to make just a small cake for me but no, Gramms has to spoil me. She pulls out this cake that has chocolate frosting,yellow cake and then white cream in the center! OH heavens to betsy!!!! YUM! I sadly took my piece to go as I had to check in the hotel before 10 and it was getting late.

I was a true princess as Gramms set me up at this place called Hotel Josephine. A beautiful small inn that's nearly 200 years old! I had a quaint little room with a bed that was just heaven. Before we had left for the evening, Gramms had asked me to come with her to the "city" for some shopping and lunch. Once again she paying for everything...*insert another blush* As you can tell, I'm NOT used to being spoiled. But here is a picture of the room:


Sadly I was a bit too hyper from that cake to go to sleep right away, so I curled up in the bed and wrote a bit on my story finally crashing in bed about 1am.

Now you would think with me crashing into bed about 1am, I wouldn't wake up till about 10 right? NO! This girl, miss I am NOT a morning person, arose at 6am! *scratches head* So I went into the lobby in my PJs, they have clouds on them hehe, to partake in the small breakfast fare. Bagels, toast, eggs and sausage. Simple until you get to the end of the line to see this HUGE cinnamon rolls! YUM! More sugar...hehe.

After breakfast, I once again met up with Gramms and we went to the city for some shopping. She took me to The Sunflower Seed and I browsed. I was trying to be really good, honest. She had a few Needle Necessities threads there so I grabbed two that I really like. I miss that line of threads. When I started to pay, Gramms wouldn't have it. =/ She also told me to pick out a chart to go with those threads. Well I didn't pick out one that goes with them but I did pick up the new Stitchy Kitty Snowman Trio. I browsed a couple of other things and put them back down. Good girl right?? Well....so then we went to a lovely place called Jason's Deli for lunch and met her friend Robin. Did a little shopping too at Hobby Lobby and Joann's. Hehe *evil grin* I found the perfect backing fabric for a friend's project....

Soon it was time to say goodbye and that was hard as I don't know when I'll be in Aussie! LOL I came back home and unpacked only to find several things: extra money in my purse and those charts I put back in my package. Shame Gramms!!! =/ But all in all it was great fun!! I just feel a little guilty for being spoiled but no worries I have intentions of making it up. =) Oh yes, picture of new stash:


Recognize the needles L..hehe you have me hooked now. =) So I love you Gramms!!! Miss you already and thank you for a great time!! It's been a long time since I've been spoiled..but remember...payback always comes when you least expect it. ;)

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