I haven't seen my friend AJ in person since summer of 2008. Recently he let me know he would be in the bay area for a meeting and then had a couple hours before his flight. So yesterday I drove down to Oakland to see him. I talked with Reece most of the drive down, which gave me some good visiting time with a FB friend no longer on FB and also made the drive go quickly.
I asked AJ to meet met at the Starbucks off Edgewater Drive, which happens to be the Starbucks where I used to study all day while Jack worked at the Walmart next to it. I was slightly proud of myself when I was able to remember how to get there without consulting Google Maps. I was surprised, though, to see the Walmart is now closed. Just an empty unmarked building for now. The Starbucks was also entirely different, which shouldn't have surprised me since it's been years since I've been there and most locations change their indoor arrangements every 6 months or so.
Anyway, I got there early so I enjoyed snipping dance home videos for a compilation project I'm working on. AJ arrived with his friend and business partner Tyler, and we walked to the Chipotle next door so they could get lunch while we visited. We talked for probably 1.5-2 hours about work and relationships, how I met Jack, things like that, and it was really fun. I could have easily visited much longer but they had to go catch their flight. It's wonderful when you reconnect with friends and you immediately are comfortable around each other again.
Since I was already going to be all the way down in Oakland, I had asked Sarah if she's be free to have dinner, and she was. I drove to the Panera she had chosen and kept working on my dance clips (which really make me smile and laugh to myself) until she got there. She bought my dinner (very sweet) since I had driven down, and then we also visited for nearly three hours. We both kept saying we should get going soon but then kept...not doing that, haha. And we made each other laugh pretty hard a few times. It was great.
Overall an unexpected but really nice day of socializing with friends I don't see much. I'm particularly glad Sarah lives in the bay area because, even though we still see each other only every few months, it's a lot more often than we saw each other when she lived in Minnesota.
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