old friends

i had the opportunity to catch up with a childhood friend. michael and i grew up together and due to our lives running in different directions we have only been able to catch up over emails and infrequent phone conversations.

michael and i traveled across the u.s. together after we both finished undergrad. i then went on to grad school and michael began the peace corp in panama which turned into him living out of the country more than in the country in the past 10 years. we have spoken several times in the past 10 years but i have always found it difficult to catch up on life with someone that you are use to knowing so well, but now lives such a different life than me. i find myself not being able to ask enough questions to get a grasp on what day to day life looks like for michael.

micheal is now living in boulder, co ...and is even about to buy a house. he sent me a facebook message to say he would be in charlotte for work and wanted to get together. when preparing him for what my house is like i told him donovan's name and age and what he is into now.

it is so strange to grasp that michael and i use to know so much about each other and live such similar lives, but my son said hello and gave him a high five on the first time meeting! wow how time flies. after a few days and a gazillion questions i think we were able to talk it all out and bring each other up to date.

after getting use to his lion like mane and handle bar mustache it was as if it had not been 10 years since our last meeting! ahhhhh old friends :)

we were not able to get donovan to get a picture with michael....probably due to the mustache, but we did get a pic of donovan in his syracuse gear!