The rest of our time

We didn't venture too far in the waning days of Karisa's visit, in fact the furthest we drove to was Oxford on the Saturday. We always enjoy heading back up to Oxford, although I don't miss the gnarled traffic in that compact city. We hung out with Stef at the Fishes, it was great to catch up with her, find out about her travels to England, and hear what God was up to in her life. KBC is a wonderful place to be yourself, and to learn more of who you are. After dropping her off at home, we drove back into the city centre to be-bop around and visit some old haunts. Actually we struggled to find a parking spot, and after getting routed the wrong way into an already full parking lot, i declared something to the effect of "how does one drive in this city" to be honest it was probably much more dramatical (word?) than that but that's what I can muster up at this point. Anyway we eventually made our way to the Eastgate parking lot, which was also full up, except for the front row, bottom level handicapped spots that the attendant instructed us to use, so we did and off we were to the dodge the innumerable crowds of Cornmarket St and so-on. One old haunt we visited was the Noodle Bar, when in Oxford do check it out reasonable cost and enough quantity. Then the next haunt was the covered market, again a great spot to wander into if you're in the city, we looked at a bunch of places, but ultimately bought next to nothing. After strolling around we made it back to the car-park payment machines, where for the third time in the last month we paid for our parking within 5 minutes of when the cost would go to the next hour, it is the small things in life that sometimes grasp your attention. We ended at Dave and Velma's house for coffee and watched an episode of Corner Gas which is a great Canadian show about not too much, but certainly kept mine and Dave's attention. They are wonderful hosts, we do enjoy hanging out at their place, and our time with them Rachel and Karisa was really nice. I did forget to mention that McDonald's in Botley served up a rockin mint McFlurry that Karisa and I each enjoyed one. just thought you might like to know, happy Christmas all, and to all a good day
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