On Saturday, Pete, Miles, Colsen and I traveled to Saluda, NC to spend some time at a couple cabins with a bunch of my old friends. There are about a dozen of my Spencerport classmates (plus spouses and kids) that still get together annually -- and this time, conveniently for us -- the gathering was close by. I'm so thankful for these friendships -- several of us have even known each other since we were 6 or 7 years old. It's been so strange, and wonderful, watching everyone grow up over the years (on the outside anyway!) and choose various life paths. Still, we always say it's like no time has gone by since we were in school together, learning what a noun was and how to do long division. We've been on sports teams together, on Odyssey of the Mind teams together, in student government together, etc. And now 25 or 30 years later, we're still friends. (And no one has aged a bit -- that's what we keep telling each other anyway!)
So the 19 of us had fun together this past weekend -- doing a lot of sitting around and talking, and even riding a zip line that was next to the cabins. Some of the group went mountain biking and some went shopping and hiking, but I just enjoyed the time to catch up. Pete likes these friends as well -- I guess he's known a lot of them for about 14 years now -- and he also enjoyed having the chance to sample the product of a friends' new business venture: mead!
Here are some pictures of us: In 6th grade for the first 2; in 12th grade for the next 2; and the group this past weekend in the last 2.
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