My freshman college "roomie" came to visit us for a few days and we had such fun. We met at Ripon....and we both chose that small, liberal arts college for similar reasons. One from Massachusetts, one from Illinois. Both from big high schools feeling rather "lost" and ending up at a small college where we could feel more comfortable and find ourselves.
And I'm glad I found Marcia and she found me! We've never lived close to each other as adults. She spent her adult life working and living in Boston and then retiring to Cape Cod. I jumped back and forth from the midwest to the mid-Atlantic states....so we didn't connect very often with the exception of Christmas cards.
But in the past five or six years we've crossed paths several times.....and re-finding each other has been very nice. So when she planned her trip to see a friend in Chicago she also planned to come up and see us for a few days.
And we did have fun.....in spite of a few mis-steps (arriving in Milwaukee on Monday and planning to have lunch at the Milwaukee Art Museum did not work out so well. Why didn't I remember that most museums are closed on Mondays?!). But plan B was fun so we just continued on. We explored, we talked, we laughed, we walked Fenway, we shopped, we went out to eat, she joined me at my quilt guild meeting. We crammed a lot of fun into a three+ day visit.
So when I dropped her off at the bus to take her back to O'Hare Airport today it was with a little bit of sadness. We hugged....and I told her that as I age, times spent with such special friends means more and more. We plan to see each other again in September 2017.
Time flies....but that seems like a long time between visits!!
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