Over the last week or so, Mr. Sweet and I have talked about the changes in our lifestyle pace since we began. We started off on the roaring rapids, with loads of opportunities coming our way. We then settled into more of a patio boat pace. We were moving along with a steady group of friends, hooking up when time allowed. Then we were dry docked for awhile, due to my mom’s illness. (She’s doing MUCH better now, by the way). We tried restarting the motor on the patio boat, but it just wasn’t revving for us. So we’ve adopted more of a lazy river pace—just floating along, with no real destination in mind, going wherever the current takes us. It’s not that we don’t want to play. But as I’ve previously mentioned, most of the couples in our little circle of friends seem to be unavailable now. We also haven’t had much luck in our attempts to find new playmates.

Or have we? At a birthday party for our friends’ daughter on Saturday, we ran into a couple we’d met at the house party we attended a few weeks prior (also hosted by Fred and Wilma). We talked to them a bit at the house party, but as I mentioned in my last blog entry, we spent most of our time talking to old friends. It seems we hit it off rather well with Ariel and Eric, at least on a vanilla basis. They even invited us to join them and Fred and Wilma for a day at a local amusement park. A great time was had by all, and there appears to be a mutual attraction with them. Nothing direct was said, as it’s a family day, but there are tentative plans in the works for us to co-host a Halloween house party with them.

Yes, I believe this lazy river is the perfect place for us right now.

=)