Long lost cousin

I have a cousin who's lived all over the world. After volunteering with the Peace Corps, she continued to live in cool places like Russia, Japan, Africa and I'm sure I'm missing several other places. The other day I was chatting with Auntie Geek and she mentioned that this cousin was living in the D.C. area. So, after going through the parental channels, I got in touch with my cousin and it turns out her family lives about 5.5 miles away! And the wildest thing is that her younger daughter has the same name as Geek Girl! Now, you might have though the grandmas might have mentioned this to the daughters, but I guess it wasn't as cool to them as it is to us.

Yesterday Geek Girl and I went over to visit with long lost cousin and her daughters. We chatted a while and then went to their pool. There was confusion with two girls with the same name, but the older sister came up with the solution of adding "tiger" to Geek Girl's name. Afterwards there was some parallel play (they had the great big Littlest Pet Shop house) but in the end they were all decorating a big piece of cardboard that was to be used as a prop for a play that the older daughter had written in school.

Today Geek Girl and I went into D.C. to go to a children's program at the National Art Gallery. We were supposed to meet long lost cousin and her younger daughter, but the metro was running a little slow between their stop and our stop. We ended up participating in an earlier program than they did (we had plans to meet Daddy Geek for lunch afterwards). During the program, the leader read and discussed a book with the kids, talked about a piece of art, and then the kids had their own craft to paint. It was too bad that we missed hanging out with long lost cousin and daughter, but we should see them again soon.

edited to add: Okay, I spoke to mom and she said she did tell me that long lost cousin had a child with the same name as Geek Girl. Further proof that I don't listen to my mother, or remember what she tells me.