By comparison to the past two days today's drive was a breeze. I even slept in later. Well at least I tried. At nine housekeeping knocked on my door because I forgot to put out the do not disturb card :(. Anyways I then just lounged around until I left at eleven. Of course I then ran into a ton of road construction. So I got into Springfield later than I would have liked especially since I actually had friends to meet. So sometimes its just better to stick to a plan.
It's amazing how quickly and easy it is to settle in with old friends. I vaguely remember a description in a novel about how old friends are just like a pair of old tennis shoes. They may be old but they are comfortable. Or something like that. Now that I wrote that out like that I'm not sure how complimentary the statement is exactly. I've known C and J since freshman year of college and therefore besides my two closest friends from high school are amongst my oldest friends. In fact I roomed with both of them my Sophomore year and then even moved off campus with C and another friend to our own house for our Junior year. C has opened up her home to me for the next 3 nights and that is where I'm posting from right now.
I can't believe that its been a little less than 10 years since we graduated college. As the concept of time has been something I've addressed several times in this blog I won't go into it again. It's just really strange to feel that it was just yesterday that we were all together in school and then deal with the fact that they are now both moms. In fact C's children are already in 2nd grade and Kindergarten. And well that is all just a trip because it doesn't feel like it is all possible. Anyways we all just started talking and the conversation just flowed for nearly 5 hours. It reminded me of how we did that a lot in college. Mostly into the weee hours of the morning. Which we didn't do tonight. C has to get up early for work and J has a 30+ minute drive back home to her family. So that leaves me as the final night owl. But really only because I'm still off on my timing. It's midnight here but a part of me still feels like its 10 - which it is in Arizona. I didn't think I'd have jet lag driving across country but here I am. I just feel blessed that C's house is set up that the guest room is in her basement and so my staying up later than her family isn't keeping them up... or at least I hope it's not. They've been amazing gracious with me letting me stay here, putting my packed car in their garage and giving me a remote so I can come and go as I please. I couldn't ask for better.
Tomorrow I think I'm going to drive around town. See if I can drege up any memories... And after C gets off work the three of us are heading over to campus to see all the changes. Even though they live in the same town that we went to college they haven't been over to it in years either. Then Tuesday I hope to be able to plan something for dinner with other college friends. I actually have to post on Facebook ASAP about it because unlike my usual nature of planning out everything I didn't get that far in setting up anything. As I told J tonight I was surprised by how quickly my trip seemed to just suddenly be happening. So hopefully I'll actually have some friends that are available!
I'll be leaving town on Wednesday to head to my Grandmother's where I'll be staying through Saturday. Combining the fact that I don't think my Grandma has Wi-Fi and the fact that the next two days or so I just want to relax I'm not sure if I'll be posting again until maybe next weekend. So if I don't I'll try to do a thorough update in the next post.
I'm going to go ahead and post this without a review - I'm just a little too tired for it tonight.
So please excuse any errors.
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