Helen in the city

Before Tuesday afternoon, we had never met Julian’s sister Helen – yet when we did, it felt like we’d known her for ages. Probably because we’ve been facebook stalking her for at least two years now. That, and the fact that we lived with Julian (and Shelley, of course) for fifteen glorious months – and when you live with friends, you kind-of adpot their family into yours, even if it means memorising the names, places of residence, which ones have been shot, which ones may have rabies after being bitten by a monkey, etc – for about 20 people on either side.

We took Helen to one of our favourite coffee shops in the city – Brother Espresso, giving due credit to Jason for the original discovery of the store (at least in our direct line of contacts). We had never eaten there previously, but happily, we were all well impressed with our lunchtime delights – not to mention our coffee (though we should have ordered the coffee after lunch, to stop it from going cold while we were eating).

Oh the hours, how they whiled away! Helen was extremely entertaining to talk to (I must admit, she reminded me a lot of Julian, but that’s not a bad thing – we like Julian). To be fair though, I also was extremely entertaining – as you can see here, there were many occasions where the girls erupted into fits of raucous laughter in reaction to my hilarious antics.

Helen is only in Australia until mid September – it’s some sort of undercover, classified mission thing – but we’re hoping we can catch up with her again before she leaves! Only two more Lewis children to meet (Dan and Katherine, we’re talking about you here) and we’ll have the entire clan covered!

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