Quasi-Reunions

Friday night after the gym (and after finishing "The Pirates!") I went to Dany's house for a little party. I haven't seen Dany, nor our group of friends (be it churchies or the Fellowship), for probably a year straight. I love that I've known these kids for so long, and so well, that I can see them after a year and it's almost like we've never missed each other. I saw a bunch of old faces, and a few surprise-faces. It was a nice night with them.
Dany's younger sister was also participating in party-ing with her friends. Because they were all high schoolers, though, and Dany & us were all college kids or already out of college, the groups segregated themselves...the high schoolers fooled around downstairs, while us older kids (and the parents) talked upstairs.
I've never realized the true value of the game Apples to Apples until that night. Roughly 20 of us older kids huddled together on the couch and played it for at LEAST a good hour and a half or so. After we finished the game, we just chilled out in the kitchen and talked. Like old people. Reminisced about when we were younger; filling in each other about our current status and plans; updating people on others who weren't there. And I felt slightly out of the loop because I hadn't seen them in so long, and I'm awkward anyways...but they (for the most part) kept me included, like always. I love them.

Saturday, I impulsively drove up to Maine to visit Jessica over in Ocean Park. The town is adorably miniscule...and looks like something straight out of a 1930's picture from the Saturday Evening Post. You can only drive at a slow crawl through the town. They've got all of 3 shops down there, a shuffleball court, and one is an ice cream shop called the Soda Fountain. The houses are all small, and the ones in the center of town are all white. And it's right on the beach, which is the highlight of it all.
After 2-hour traffic, I joined Jess on the beach for a few hours. We lazed and soaked in some sun. We talked a bit, caught up, girl talked, talked about books. Tyler (her brother) and a bunch of their friends joined us behind their house. They're funny kids. A lot of them were Canadian. Scott called, and I put him on speakerphone so Jess and I could both talk to him for a while.
We went out to grab some dinner at a local diner, and grabbed some DVDs at some local video shop. We also stopped by the Soda Fountain (with the entire town in line before us) and grabbed ice cream (frozen yogurt for us lactose intolerants). I didn't watch the movies with them because I had to drive home.

Sunday was low-key. I think I bruised the bone in my left foot, which is sad. I grilled some steaks (which the grill decided to engulf in a sea of flames...charbroiled it is) and we had a summery dinner. Jaynie and Giard stopped by for a while and we chilled outside. We concluded that I talk too much.