Visit from an Old Friend...

I got a special treat a couple weeks ago when one of my oldest, dearest friends - Renee - was in Denver for her oldest daughter's softball tournament.

I met Renee when I was about 3 yrs old. We attended preschool through 12th grade together. When I first met her (in preschool) we lived only a couple of blocks away from one another. Renee was there for my first sleepover, my confirmation, my first babysitting job, my graduation, my first concert (Madonna Like A Virgin Tour 1985!), my prom, and my wedding. When we were young we played house, and school, and in the summer ran thru sprinklers and played "slip'n'slide" on the lawn. In Junior High we hit the roller rink, lip sync'd to the "Grease" soundtrack, rocked out to Def Leppard and prank-called the boys we liked, dreaming of driving our own cars one day... then came high school - where we loved Duran Duran and Wham! spent countless hours recording music off the radio with our "boomboxes", going to teen dance clubs, driving our moms' cars and generally acting like reckless teenage girls do...like all angsty, teenage girls, we had our falling outs, and many emotional ups and downs in our relationship, but in the end we are still the little girls who met at preschool in 1974.

It was so fun to catch up with her and talk with her daughters. Her daughter actually traveled to China last December with her softball team and visited an orphange while she was there and stayed at the White Swan! It was like no time had passed at all - much less 30 years! I found the following photo (our class photo from preschool - or a police lineup from 1974 - I wonder what Renee was so serious about???) LOL.