First, Alex and Bobbi looking happy and relieved. Oh, and married. Don't they look married? I'm so happy for you both.
Kate and Steve looking awfully nice themselves...
And the reunited (if incomplete) Shrewsbury crowd, including from left to right:
Joel, me, Alex, Jess, and Michael.
The last time the five of us were in one place was in the sixth grade. Can you pick out who is who?
The whole weekend was really nice. Mark and I spent a few extra nights to celebrate our own anniversary, and many fine books and skeins of yarn were purchased. We managed to squeeze in a breakfast with Jessie and family before they headed out, and we met Steve and Kate for a great lunch in Burlington, and got to spend some time with them. Thanks to both of you for staying awake long enough to visit!
So, much fun was had by all, and I'm immeasurably glad that I was able to be a part of it. I did get a little melancholy driving home when we passed signs for the exit to Rutland. The six years I spent in Shrewsbury were some of the happiest I've had, and certainly the happiest of my childhood. I got a little sad thinking about the fact that these particular people will never be together in just this way again. People grow up and move on and have lives and stay in touch the best that they can, that's just the way it is. I'm just so glad I still have friends like all of you.
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I'll email. But I had such a great time...not only was I married to my best friend, but I was surrounded by all my other best friends.
I felt very rich.
You know, I'm looking at the fall foliage in our 6th grade pictures...some people pay a lot of money to Olin Mills for a fake backdrop that looks the way our playground did.
I was a pretty nice setting, wasn't it? We were lucky in a lot of ways, even if we didn't think so all the time as kids. Would our lives really have been better if we had a bigger school or a gym or a different playground? I don't think so.
I'll email you, too.
I had no idea you were in VT! I would have waved on Rt 4 as you passed Rutland. I love Shrewsbury but I get lost whenever I go there-no street signs!! Why don't you come over and join my Knit Vermont webring? Link on my blog sidebar.
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