Does anything make a person’s heart sing like meeting up with friends you haven’t seen in a while? This weekend, our friends from San Antonio, TX have come to visit. Immediately the rapport that we established during the conference we all attended was renewed and refreshed. 10 minutes after the pickup at the airport and once again we fell into the groove of banter that has defined our friendship since we met.
The only thing that would have made it better is if the 5th member of our quintet had been able to make it. Actually, that was the plan. During the planning stages for the visit, we encouraged him to join us from his home in NYC. At first he talked about making it but a work conference came up and it wasn’t going to happen.
Little did we know that the guys from afar were working together to pull a fast one on us. The “meeting in DC” that had come up was actually code talk for sneaking to North Carolina to try and surprise us. An airline ticket was booked that would have dropped him in the Charlotte airport 30 minutes before the others arrived, he was going to come up and tap me on the shoulder.
Yeah, I would have been stunned beyond words.
Unfortunately, it’s sometimes possible to move mountains and lose to bugs.
In this case, the bug is called H1N1, and Mr. New York not only came down with it a couple of weeks ago, but it’s turned into pneumonia.
He still was firm about coming as late as Thursday, although he was so weak that he was unable to even finish taking a shower without being exhausted.
So on the way to dinner last night, a call was made to our friend and the gig was revealed.
It still would have been nice for him to have joined us, making our group complete, but it was best that he stay home, in bed, and take care of himself.
And now we're off with our friends to explore North Carolina.
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