June 21, 2015. Canyon Lake, Texas. Caterers.

The Texas family is coming to visit us in Nova Scotia for a week. At the same time, the Mississippi family will be there as well as cousins from Toronto. All 8 girls are within four years of each other and enjoy getting together, so David suggested that everyone gather in Nova Scotia. I thought it a grand idea. Dave and Irene are coming too. David knew the group would be large. He also knew I was not up to orchestrating dinners right now, so he decided the easiest thing to do was to hire a caterer for the week. It turned out not to be so easy. The caterer we used at our 50th has closed and moved to Alberta. No one responded from David's offers at the culinary school in Lunenburg. No caterer on the Internet would come to Liverpool to serve dinners for a week and no one answered his ad in the local papers. He started calling restaurants. The only person who seemed to care was the head chef at White Point and he gave David several good leads. The chef also suggested to David that if no caterer was avsilable, White Point could prepare a meal each evening for us and we could pick up the food, which would have been no problem. The chef even called David to follow up. I was impressed. The Rivers Edge Cafe is a restaurant in Mill Village. The chef recommended them to David as they have just started the catering business. It makes sense because the cafe is only open for breakfast and lunch so the cooks are able to take evening jobs. The contact person was Vicki Conrad, who used to be the MLA for Queens County. So we are set. They will prepare, serve and clean up for dinner each night for 20. David has yet to approve the menu because Vicki has not yet sent them to him. But we don't really care. We just want food on the table every night. David thought it would be easy to organize a caterer but it actually took him a lot of time. But now he is happy.…and so am I.