The best things in life are free: having friends stay

I love my alone time, but there's something so wonderful about having friends come to stay. It's built-in entertainment, especially if they're good friends and you haven't seen them for a while.

Cynthia came to stay for 2 nights on her way through LA from one exciting adventure to the next. We sat up late talking about her travels, my travels, our plans for the future, our ideas about life and love and what it all means. We spent the majority of her one full day here walking for hours on end with pretty tenuous goals. We shopped for a dress for her at Crossroads and Goodwill (it's super fun and free to shop for someone else at one of these places, as you get all the fun of looking and satisfaction of finding without the regret of spending!). We went to a salon and got mani-pedis with Erin for under $20.  We took fun birthday photos for another far away friend.

It's so easy to have no-money fun with another person around!