I saw an old friend yesterday. Our fathers had gone through their medical residency together, way back in the day, and the two families stayed in contact as both added kids pretty much in parallel. L. & I paired up as the two oldest sisters, then her brother was pretty much Sister No.Two's age, and their youngest sister was in line with our youngest (leaving Sister No.Three kinda unpaired again, but we all ran around together anyway, so it really didn't matter).

L. and I also had kids pretty much in parallel; her boy is the same age as The Girl and her girl is a couple of years younger than The Boy. But life was busy and we didn't keep in as close a touch as our parents had, so I've only seen them once or twice since coming back to the Puget Sound area, with mixed results. Both families seemed to be going in different directions, and with young kids and both sets of parents working, there wasn't a lot of time to keep up with each other.

Several weeks ago, she dropped me a note on Facebook (love it or hate it, Facebook has brought an amazing number of people back in contact) telling me that they'd be up in this area for a few days as their boy was graduating from his technical training program up here. Was there any chance we could get together?

I admit to trepidations. Would we have anything to talk about? Had we gone too far in completely different directions? Were we just trying to maintain contact based on our parents friendship?

We managed to pull our schedules (alright, I admit it: *my* schedule) together in the same direction yesterday afternoon, finally. Sister No.Two came up and she & I met L., her husband, their daughter and their niece on the waterfront. The two girls split up from us oldsters (How did we manage before cell phones?!?) and so the "grownups" spend the afternoon wandering around Pike Place Market, just chatting and catching up. Her husband has a wonderful sense of humor and it was good to catch up. The Darling Husband and The Girl joined us in the evening on a wild restaurant hunt (there was *no place* in the area that didn't have a 2 hr wait!); we finally checked one of my favorite places and found we could get in. The evening was late, the food was good and a nice time was had by all. We'll have to not let so long a time pass before the next time we get together. It was good to see them.