Saturday I headed to Merrifield to spend some time with my friends from another generation. You see, when I started at Forestview, I was 24 and the next youngest person in the building was 36, so I didn’t have a lot of people my age. I have never been one to discriminate and if you are fun, then I want to hang out with you. Well the ones I found are very fun and many are in their 50′s. Sara is one of my bff’s at school and she introduced my to Kathy, her best buddy from their first year of teaching. They also had a great friend Pat and they all worked at the State Hospital together. They are now all special ed. teachers and love to get together whenever possible. Pat moved to Winona a few years after teaching in Brainerd but when these girls, along with Sara W, who is Pat’s EA in Winona, get together they tend to have LOTS of fun… even enough to entertain my 26 year old self.
We got to Turkey Bass Lake around 1:00 and headed strait for the pontoon. It was unfortunately quite windy and Kathy was not confident in driving the boat, so we just sat on it, tied to the dock until around 4:30 when her husband Dan got off of work. We had some drinks, snacked, laughed, told stories and had some more drinks. We were on the boat until about 10:30 and then headed in for some dinner/midnight snack. It was an absolutely fantastic day haning with my girls… even if they do need cheaters to change the radio station!
p.s. check back for more pictures when I get them from the other cameras on the boat that day.
