Despite our infrequent travel to CA and our notoriously poor keeping-in-communication skills (thinking of you guys in New Mexico, or not currently in NM as the case is with several of you), I'm happy to report that we had some fine visits with old friends.
2 thoughts from these visits.
1. Friends are generally quite happy to see you again despite long periods of no contact.
2. All friends we visited are married with kids. What's strange to me is how normal this felt. How hard is it to find a good person to marry? How hard is it to have and then raise children? Somehow, we all ended up in about the same place. **
Fred and Judy's family (not shown), friends from college, are still lighting up the Bay Area. Kenn and his wife Anne and baby joined us for dinner as well.
Eleanor was Jill's roommate in grad school. Now she's married and has a cute kid!
Andy and I go back to 6th grade, my best friend growing up. Funniest quote (not exact wording due to poor memory) of the trip came from Melanie, who has known Andy longer than I have: 'Sometimes I look at Andy and wonder why in the world I married that 13 year old.'
We just squeezed in a lunch date with Emily and her boys on our way to the airport. I must have met her in 7th grade, and we had many classes together through high school. Occasionally, I saw her in college too.
We took off one of the walls of Clara's crib so that she wouldn't hurt herself while climbing out. We found her on the floor under her bed in the morning. Twice we have had to rescue her in the middle of the night due to awkward positions, but finally we seem to have figured out a way to contain her wild sleeping while allowing wakeful escapes. We think.
** We do have friends in other conditions: single, widowed, divorced, and married w/o kids. We just didn't happen to visit them on this trip.
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