The school district scheduled a furlough day for us for Friday, November 12. I thought that was a good idea considering that Thursday the 11th was a holiday. When I first heard of this four-day weekend, I thought it would be a good time to do a road trip to Oregon with Marj. But that didn't turn out and I decided to take the four days and go up to see the fam in NorCal. Kyle's birthday was on Sunday the 14th, and Laura informed me that there would be no traveling on a birthday. So I took off the Monday so we wouldn't be driving back home on Kyle's birthday.
The kids picked me up right after school on Wednesday and we headed up I-5. We made decent time and got to Beth's around 10 pm. We had to stop at the grocery store first. Beth had a miserable cold and on the drive up Kyle announced that he thought he was coming down with a cold. I began to wonder whether or not I was going to be able to dodge that particular bullet. Beth had felt so awful that she had gone to bed before we arrived. Mark was in Idaho and Haley was in a little production of Peter Pan for which Beth had helped do the choreography. The performances were that weekend and Beth was mired in driving Haley to and from the final ---- and very long--- rehearsals. We didn't realize it ahead of time, but we weren't going to see much of Beth that weekend. When we were at the house, she was at a rehearsal or performance with Haley, and the times she was at home she was either sleeping or we were away.
On Thursday Laura, Kyle and I took the ferry into San Francisco. It was a stunningly beautiful day. That city is so gorgeous when the sun is out! I was meeting my friend Tim for lunch. I wanted Laura and Tim to meet but didn't want to put Laura and Kyle in an awkward situation where they would sit around at lunch and have to listen to old stories from our high school years. I thought a few minutes together, just casual and unpressured, would be best.
On Friday we had a little luncheon for five of us who went to high school together. We weren't people who hung out together in high school but somehow we assembled for lunch at Marj's house in Novato.
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