friend-filled weekend

My weekend started on Friday at the pool. I bumped into an old fellow coop-er and we had a nice catch-up chat. Then home for a few minutes and to the house of another old friend, a former colleague from years back, for lunch. On the way home, I stopped off at a coffee shop for a visit with yet another friend. Friday night was fairly quiet, just Robert and me.

Saturday, Robert dashed out of the house early for a pre-pride Interfaith service, followed by a long and reportedly fun Pride parade. Apparently the LGBTQ (alphabet soup) dancers in the area (about 12 groups) all walked together. Sounds like fun.

I stayed home because I had arranged for another friend to come for a lunch visit. She's often out of town on weekends and this was one of the few weekends she was in the area. She left, I cleaned up, Robert came home, and we went back into town for dinner with more friends and an evening dance.

The dance was called by someone who long ago moved from Boston to the left coast but comes back every year to call Pride Dance. He did a great job -- involving beginners, challenging experienced dancers -- and the place was packed! We had a rare three lines of dancers and hopping great music. I'm not even sure I sat out one dance.

We brought our dinner friends home, we all crashed, and then spent a leisurely morning together yesterday. After they left, Robert and I cleaned up and then crashed again -- I slept two hours and he three. The cats seemed all too happy to help us nap.

I'm fairly refreshed, ready to face this week.

Next weekend, my friend JCK and I are taking an intermediate DSLR course, called something like "after the introductions." Should be fun to hear what the instructor has to say and to spend time with Ms. K. Robert says her middle initial stands for camera, btw. Close!

Onward.