So, where was I???? Oh yes, Ohio! No, wait, wasn't it South Dakota? Oh, I forget. I just remember that we were heading for Valerie's. She is one of my oldest "best" friends! Jimmy had to fight the extremely high winds all the way across Iowa & Nebraska. We were all over the freeway!
Val and her husband, Nathan, have been living in and around CO/AZ for a long time. They were in the process of buying a house and although we didn't get to see the inside, the outside looked fantastic! I couldn't be happier for them. It was so great to see Val again. I remember meeting her when I was five and she was four and she was sitting on the curb watching the neighborhood kids playing in the street and she said to me "Don't play with them, they're MEAN!" That was it, I was hooked and we (mean kids and all) grew up together all the way through high school. It was an ideal childhood. Cupertino was a 'mecca' of young families with lots of kids to choose from. We played without fear of "Code Adams", and "Megan's Law". Riding bikes until the street lights came on, hide and seek, block parties, crab apple fights and playing at the school that was right on the block... Val and Marie lived behind and over a few houses and I would walk the fence and jump into their back yard to play. Oh yeah, and swimming ALL DAY once they got a pool. That was the BEST! Oh and I can't forget those summers of cutting apricots!
(and I still have my knife!!! :o)I am sure Mrs. Garcia would be so proud of Val. She had the cutest little house, she even cooks! Now if she would only age like the rest of us (ME!)
It was a terrific visit...
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