annemarie meets brett 2
annemarie meets brett 2
annemarie meets brett 3

ANNEMARIE MEETS BRETT:

The next day, he sent me back a note. We then started to send notes back and forth. We seemed to get along pretty well. One of the things that we emailed about was travels. He asked me where my next trip was, and it turned out that it was to LA with Lora for a friend's birthday. I mentioned that we had all of Saturday to sightsee, or plan something fun, and that was when Brett said it would be fun to meet up for lunch or something like that. The plan turned into him picking Lora and me up at LAX, we had dinner (my first time eating sushi) at 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica, and then rode together to Santa Barbara. He dropped us off at our hotel and came back to get us the next morning. He took us all around Santa Barbara on Saturday and was the most gracious tour guide. We had a wonderful time hanging out with Brett in SB that day. As he dropped us off at the rental car place in LA, I remember giving him a really big and long hug, and not really wanting to stop hanging out, but not exactly sure why.

Over the next few months, we stayed in touch via email, late night chats on the computer, and a few phone calls here and there. We got to know each other a little bit more, and every time we did, I always had a smile on my face. When my friends would ask why I was up so late the night before, and I'd say that I was chatting with Brett online...they would ask me what that was all about. Trying to keep the smile off my face, I would tell them that we were just friends....as we were....but I just really enjoyed talking with him.

When he told me that he thought that he'd be coming through Texas in July for work....I immediatley told him that we've have to meet up and that I owed him a tour. To make a longer story short, he and a few of the other crew coming in for the work trip were landing in Houston on a Monday night. I had been in for the weekend for Lora's birthday, and it worked out to where I was going to hang there for a few days to be able to meet up with them before taking off for another work trip. I picked up Brett, Shyla and Paul at the airport and took them to the hotel they were staying.

SATURDAY 10 JULY 2010