[I want to get something down before I forget, since this journal is partly for my own time-binding.]
Our friends Alan and Jeanne were in town for a few days, and![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cattitude and I got to spend a few hours with them, and with Alan's nephew. The nephew is why they were here—the trip was a bar mitzvah present from Alan—and seemed to be having a good time, though he didn't say a lot to us. (Not surprising, one thirteen-year-old and four adults, two of whom he'd never met before.)
Alan specifically wanted ice cream, so we went to Tosci's; I had orange caramel ice cream, which was very good. We ate ice cream, and talked, and then walked over to Pandemonium (I think it was the nephew who specifically wanted to go there), and then to Dumpling House on Mass Ave for supper.
A good few hours of conversation, though I realized afterward that I'd talked a lot with Alan and only a little bit with Jeanne. It was also a reminder that it had been too long since we talked: it's good that we still have the kind of friendship where we can pick up after that kind of gap, but I don't think Alan had quite realized that since we hadn't talked in over a year, I didn't know he and Jeanne now have two grandchildren.
I am going to try to make more of an effort to keep in touch, rather than assuming Alan will call (our old pattern from when I lived in New York).
Our friends Alan and Jeanne were in town for a few days, and
cattitude and I got to spend a few hours with them, and with Alan's nephew. The nephew is why they were here—the trip was a bar mitzvah present from Alan—and seemed to be having a good time, though he didn't say a lot to us. (Not surprising, one thirteen-year-old and four adults, two of whom he'd never met before.) Alan specifically wanted ice cream, so we went to Tosci's; I had orange caramel ice cream, which was very good. We ate ice cream, and talked, and then walked over to Pandemonium (I think it was the nephew who specifically wanted to go there), and then to Dumpling House on Mass Ave for supper.
A good few hours of conversation, though I realized afterward that I'd talked a lot with Alan and only a little bit with Jeanne. It was also a reminder that it had been too long since we talked: it's good that we still have the kind of friendship where we can pick up after that kind of gap, but I don't think Alan had quite realized that since we hadn't talked in over a year, I didn't know he and Jeanne now have two grandchildren.
I am going to try to make more of an effort to keep in touch, rather than assuming Alan will call (our old pattern from when I lived in New York).