What we didn’t do this weekend: take part in the breastfeeding challenge which was held at the West Edmonton Mall again yesterday. Last year I was sick. I can’t remember why I didn’t take part the year before that. The year before that Munchkin was just a itty-bitty baby and I was too disorganized to get us out the door for anything scheduled.

So I swore that this would be the year we would make it. But one just doesn’t take a child with a high fever out and about, much less to a place where there will be a lot of babies who might be infected. So we skipped it again.

What we did do: Munchkin was feeling much better today, so after a quick visit to Ikea we headed to out to a special buffet lunch at a vegan restaurant in celebration of World Vegetarian day. The food was absolutely delicious as always, and I ate way too much. It’s a good thing they are all the way across town from us or we’d be there every night.

Their special celebration buffets are always really well attended. Since we generally neglect to call ahead, all of the small table are often in ue or reserved when we arrive, so several times we’ve ended up at a large table sitting with strangers. This is fine with us, and last time we went we ened up with a family with a child around Munchin’s age, so all was good.

This time we ened up with a nice elderly couple and a gentlemen with a lovely accent that I won’t even attempt to place because I would surely be wrong. I’m not clear of the couple and the gentlement knew each other before - they may have just met as we had. We talked to them briefly, but mostly we were focused on our food and our kids and not on the conversation across the table. Also, it was quite a large table and amidst a noisy atmosphere so I couldn’t hear them very well.

But I did hear snippets.

There was much talk of auras and energy and spirital matters, but that was all fine if a bit new-agey. Then I caught bits about being from the future and coming back to heal a time rift and about the Philadelphia Experiment (which I hadn’t heard of before, thank you Wikipedia). Then I heard something about fighting evil and oversouls, the latter of which there are apparently about five hundred and some of. And I just thought to look oversoul up in Wikipedia as well, and they probably were talking about something along these lines. They discussed a few particular over-souls by name - particularly the one they believed the other man at the table to belong to, and I wish I’d remembered the names to look up.
At first I was wondering what science fiction series they were talking about. Then, as I realized they were talking about themselves, I waited to hear what game they were roleplaying for. Eventually it became clear that they weren’t playing a game.

O_o