Last night, I experienced two strange coincidences.
Travis took me on a date last night and earlier in the day I had been kind of craving Cafe Eccell for dinner. I haven't been there yet this year and I do love their pizza so we decided that we would go there to eat. Yesterday was kind of a weird day in that I began the morning with three hours of Pi Phi initiation (yay baby Pi Phi's!) which was fun but it also marked the one year anniversary of my cousin Alex's passing. Throughout the day I was kind of sad just thinking about how he isn't here anymore. Later that night, Travis picked me up and we headed to Cafe Eccell when suddenly it hit me (coincidence #1). My cousin Shannon had mentioned that Cafe Eccell is where she celebrated her engagement to her now husband. I'm guessing my extended family was there...including her brother, my cousin Alex. CRAZY! We ended up going to eat at a place that was so appropriate for the day.
Then, as Travis and I drove past Cafe Eccell and into the parking lot, we say these two cars with security personnel standing beside them. We thought "Really? You're going to block half of the road because you're so important?"We proceeded to walk to the front door when we saw some people getting their picture taken...surrounded by four guys in black suits.
It was George and Barbara Bush.
I tried to just walk behind them so we could slip into the restaurant and let them leave without a scene. However, I was snapped at by one of the secret service men, "Could you hold on a second?" Well, ok I guess I can. We waited for them to finish taking their picture with some other restaurant go-ers and George Bush turned to us and waved. Travis said, "Howdy" which is hilarious to me because he never says "howdy" (I think he was starstruck). Then Barbara Bush leaned down to ask George Bush what the Rangers score was. We liked seeing that little glimpse of normalcy between them.
But here is coincidence #2. Barbara Bush was initiated into my Pi Phi Chapter in 2002, she is a Texas Eta Pi Phi. She is a big supporter of our chapter and to see her on the same day we initiated our new members was a huge coincidence. Just that morning we were talking about how her! Our whole philanthropy is influenced by her so it was pretty cool to see her last night. Now, if only I had put all of this together in that small moment when I saw her. I could've talked Pi Phi with her!! They were leaving though, so I think my brain picked the right choice by not bothering her on her way out.
It was a funny night. Those back to back coincidences, they were so right! And in case you were wondering, we split a margherita pizza and it was deelish.
