I Love Our Neighbors

We've lived in our building for seven and a half years, but it was only about a year ago that we started to make friends with the neighbors in our hallway. We were hello! and how ya doin'? neighbors, and they all seemed quite nice. But one afternoon--after having said to each other, one of these days we should hang out... for months and months and months--we had a barbeque.

And we found out that they're pretty amazing.

Every Sunday for the past couple-two-three months, we've gotten together for dinner and Game of Thrones viewing. And for the past couple of weeks, we've also gotten together for Blackhawks games. GOT's season ended tonight (when can I watch Geoffrey get his ass kicked? please tell me it's soon), but we've still got the Hawks (go HAWKS!), so we'll make the most of that for the Stanley Cup Finals.

And here are our amazing neighbors:

This is Poppy (L) and Shannon (R), the two lovely hallway ladies

This is Jason (L--husband of Poppy) and John (R--boyfriend of Shannon), the handsome hallway fellows

This is Wally, the cat. She lives with Shannon & John. She loves pudding.

Roo loves our hallway friends, too. In fact, she frequently stops in front of Shannon & John or Poppy & Jason's door, waiting for us to take her inside. And it's awkward when they're not home. She just waits and waits.

And, no surprise, Roo has charmed the neighbors, too, and has even become pen-pals with Jason's friend Kevin.

He wrote her a note for Thursday's Hawks game:

And over the weekend, she wrote him back:

We're really sad that we'll have to leave our excellent hallway friends when we move. Our plan is to invite them up to Crystal Lake so much that they'll want to move up there. And if they're not open to that, we'll just sic Roo on them.

If you say "No" to Roo...

She'll be soooooo sad. You don't want to make her sad, do you? DO YOU?