The kids and I all descended on Angela's home, and we gabbed and caught up and smiled at the baby and ate lunch, and just generally had a really nice time. It's such an interesting process, bringing a long-standing friendship into the present, and reacquainting yourself with this new, adult version of your friend.
Here's the photographic evidence:
Angela and I really haven't seen each other since high school. (Once? At Kristy's cookie decorating party over Christmas break of '94?) If I thought seeing "grown up" pictures of friends from high school on Facebook was fun, actually going and visiting the grown up version beats the photos with a stick. :o)
Here are Angela and her exceptionally decent and nice husband, Padraic.
There was a considerable amount of chaos during the visit (especially when the talking Dinoco helicopter made repeated landings on the coffee table), but it all worked out really well. The melee was fairly well-spread . . .
And, my next-to-most-favorite part about the visit . . .
A shower curtain shrine to the Periodic Table. Complete with rubber ducky hooks. :o)
Thanks for the great afternoon, Angela. Let's do it again, soon!
