Sorry for my lack of posting last night.  If you’ve read Meghann’s blog this morning, you know where I was from 11:20 to 1:30 AM, so posting was impossible.  What started off as a great evening had a very tragic ending.  🙁

For brevity, my afternoon snacks included a Kashi bar, cherries, and a piece of toast with Laughing Cow.  Around 5 PM, we met up my friend Stef and her boyfriend for our downtown dinner date.

We went to our new favorite place, Dexter’s.

I ordered a beer once we sat down:

And I snagged two crackers and a piece of cheese from the communal cheese platter.

We had lots to talk about — Stef and Jack just got back from a great trip to Thailand.  It was so exotic!  They are both rock climbers so they pretty much climbed their way all over the country. 

I also got to know Jack a little better — I’ve only met him once before (which was at my wedding and we know how that is!).  He’s a tremendous athlete!  He casually mentioned that he once ran a 3:00 marathon "for fun." AHHH!

I ordered the same thing as last night — the veggie sammie:

And the Husband and I split these fries:

After dinner, we were all a little bit (OK, a lot) stuffed so we decided to walk a lap around Lake Eola to help our dinner settle.  The lake is about 0.75-mile around.

Then we stopped off at a wine bar and ordered ourselves a flight or two.  🙂

Stef and I shared the Bubbles, Bubbles, Bubbles flight and the Ladies’ Choice flight.

Well, I had just a few sips of everything because I was the driver.

It was around that time that my phone rang.  Meghann was calling me at 11:00 PM so I immediately knew something was wrong.  As you probably heard, her little dog Abbie passed away quite suddenly and without warning.

The Husband and I rushed to her house to help console her and take care of things.  It was extremely, extremely sad.  Before we went to bed last night, we said a little prayer for Abbie and thanked her for being such a wonderful dog.   She was a great fur daughter to Meghann and I know she’ll be missed by my fur family, too.

Life is too short; love your family, friends, and pets while they are here!

Abbie – I hope you are running through green fields in doggie heaven and bones are raining from the sky! Rest in peace, my furry friend.  XOXO.