High School Reunion

I’ve had the spectacular good fortune this summer to spend some time with my high school friends. Since most of us live in different cities and / or states it’s hard to get together often enough, and virtually impossible to get all of us together at the same time.

However, Jamie and her daughter Taylor had a long visit in Washington during the month of July, and I threw a barbeque at my parent’s house in Olympia so we could all get together. I literally think this was the first time since we graduated that we had all hung out. I’ve hung out with Jamie, Shane (who I went to college with Freshman year) and Rachael (who lived with me for two years at Western) individually many times, but it’s probably been seven years since our whole crew was together. And I don’t think I’ve seen Melissa since high school! It was super fun to be together, reminisce and talk about our new lives.
Rachael also came up to Seattle recently to hang out, since she claims life in Olympia is about as exciting as Bingo night in a retirement home. It was so fun to have her around and of course she is the same fun, happy person as always. She even stuck around to go to the zoo with my family on Sunday, even though I was pretty miserable with a raging hangover.
I’m very lucky that I’ve been able to remain close with the people I’ve know since I was a little 12-year-old seventh grader – or in Rachael’s case, an off-balance first communion student. They’ve all turned into amazing people that I’m still so thankful to have in my life!