Memories part 2

I wrote about Saturday in my last post, now it’s time to tell you about Thursday. Let me tell you, I was horribly nervous all day on Thursday. The reason being, I was going to dinner with my friends Sara and Carol. Why did this elicit so much anxiety you might ask? Well I haven’t seen this particular pair of friends in SEVEN years. While Brit and Megh and I have visited one another throughout the past few years since high school…it wasn’t so easy for Sara, Carol and I…being that they went to school in Utah, and I went to college in Oklahoma. Sara and I have emailed and facebooked one another since 2005, but our contact was definitely sparse. But it just so happened that Carol’s parents sent Sara’s parents a wedding announcement, around the same time that Sara and her husband were driving across country on their way to their new home in New Jersey. So the stars aligned and we all managed to be in the same place at the same time for the first time since June 2004. I remember the night we said goodbye very vividly, we hung out in Carol’s back yard taking pictures and imagined what our next few years would be like without one another by our sides. I remember getting in my car and starting to cry, then “A Beautiful Letdown” came on over the speakers and it was frighteningly poignant at that moment in time.

It was a beautiful letdown
When I crashed and burned
When I found myself alone, unknown and hurt
It was a beautiful letdown

It was really hard saying goodbye, but all of us were simultaneously sad and excited for what the next years would hold.

This is what we looked like 7 years ago!

Back to the beginning…Sara and I first met in the 5^th grade. We were both in Mrs. White’s class and our parents were both building houses on the same street. Once our houses were complete, we began walking to and from school together every day. Pretty soon we were inseparable and we spent time at each other’s house every day after school. We used to sing Spice Girls songs and dance in my gameroom for HOURS…then the movie Selena came out...we were obsessed! We also began swimming in April every year…the water was SO cold but we were too excited to wait. We were also known to make very interesting snack concoctions out of whatever we could find in the kitchen...(ever make a grilled cheese out of a hamburger bun?? It’s called a smash patty :)

Carol and I met in 5^th grade as well, but we didn’t become really close until 6^th grade when we both began to play percussion in band. Because of this, throughout high school we spent a TON of time together. Lets face it, when you’re in band, you see each other every morning for practice, every day for class, and many evenings for practices, concerts and football games, not to mention the time spent on trips. She was definitely my partner in crime throughout high school. We loved going to art museums and our junior year we started a band with Meghan, called “Through Rose colored Glasses” we even wrote a song! :P Carol will always be someone I admire. She was the prettiest and smartest girl I knew, while somehow managing to still be the sweetest person you could ever meet. She really was an anomaly! This past Saturday she got married, officially sealing the deal that Robin is now the only unmarried party!

Thursday came and went far too quickly, Sara and her husband Wade had to get going on their trip, and Carol had more wedding business to take care of. We ate yummy food and reminisced about the past. Really though, I’d have to have an entire year to truly be caught up with the past 7 years. I just hope that this visit won’t be the last and now that we’ve been reunited we can continue to keep in touch!