I hope you all are enjoying this wonderful Turkey based day. Currently I am flying over a good portion of the US, to make it to Chicago in time for Thanksgiving with friends. So this guest post is brought to you by the wonder of scheduled posts and the awesomeness that is my approximate 18 year friendship with David. And you can tell we have been friends for so long because a) we feel free to post potentially embarrassing photos of each other from middle school and b) we are soon going to be roommates!
Abby and I go way back, to grade school when her family moved to Goshen and started attending my church. Her brother Jonathan and I became fast friends when we discovered that both of us were interested in computer programming and constructing strange contraptions to shoot things at rabbits in the yard…but since I was spending so much time at his house I got to know Abby as well. At some point we decided that our relationship could be classified as “budder and frester” (I can’t remember where the terms originated but the idea is almost-but-not-quite brother and sister). Since my guest blog post happens to coincide with Thanksgiving, I’m going to give thanks for my long friendship with Abby by reminiscing over some old photos of good times we’ve had together over the years.
In 2000 our Academic Superbowl social studies team won state!
Hiding out from a storm in a tent in the Boundary Waters, ca. 2002.
We were both in the awesome History of the Southwest class in southwest Colorado in May 2004.
Exploring Seattle during one of Abby's many visits before she finally up and moved here.
Checking out the red floor at the central library in Seattle.
On the Capilano suspension bridge with friends in Vancouver last summer.
By the way Abby and Meryl make awesome water buffalo, at least when they can manage to keep a straight face.
Don’t miss the entire series…go here and press the play button: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davisagli/4925982342/in/set-72157624802951052/lightbox/
And finally, a shot from Abby's parents' recent visit to Seattle. (John is blurry either because of my poor phone-camera skills or because he was starting to grab for the cupcake.)
In case you haven’t heard, Abby and I have just rented an apartment together in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, so I’m looking forward to more adventures together over the next year!
Mennogirl 