For a second time in a month we made the road trip up to the DC area for Thanksgiving and my 10 Year reunion from good ol' Quince Orchard High School.
Thanksgiving has usually been done with Dave's family but this year we did it with Brian & Amy. It being only days away from Amy's due date we did a very low key ordered dinner at their house so that no one had to cook. Amy's brother, Eric & his wife, Michelle and their new baby, Lily came over. It was a low stress great way to spend the holiday.
The day after Thanksgiving we headed to Gaithersburg for my reunion. Very thankfully, we were able to stay at the Banig's house and they were willing to watch Arden the night of the reunion. That meant so much to us!!! It's still weird for me not to have a "home" when I go home to Gaithersburg since my parents moved, so it was nice to feel like we had one. I was also telling Mrs. Banig how it's funny to me how we spent so much time in high school trying to avoid our friend's parents and now that we're older they become people and friends that we want to spend time with. We had a really nice time staying there and I will forever be grateful to them for that!
The reunion was a trip. The combination of open bar and the awkwardness of conversations with people you haven't seen in 10 years made for a lot of funny stories. It's not very often that all 9 of us high school girlfriends are all in the same place at the same time to hang out, so that was great. The bar itself was also pretty comical towards the end of the evening once the "reunion" was over, but by that point it became a bit fuzzy. All in all, it was a super fun evening of catching up and seeing old friends and what people looked like now or were up to 10 years later. It's still weird that we graduated high school TEN years ago. Part of me feels like high school was forever ago and part of me feels like it was just yesterday if that makes any sense at all.
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