Lauren and I love having visitors! This weekend my folks, John and Jan, came to visit. I just don't understand why you northerners pull the cold down with you. It dropped almost 20 degrees from Friday to Saturday. Sunday was cold (relatively speaking) and Monday it bounced back up 15 degrees. We still had a wonderful time all weekend, despite the unpleasant weather. The photos are from the Airborne and Special Operations Museum in downtown Fayetteville. We went to the museum on Saturday morning/afternoon. It is a nice museum and one of the few things to do in Fayetteville. Despite the propaganda distributed by the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce, Fayetteville is not traditionally known as a vacation hot spot. As it turns out, I was not the only person there that day who graduated in 1996 from Lakeview High School in Battle Creek, MI and had parents visiting that weekend. While exploring WWII artifacts, I glanced to my right and, despite all statistical probabilities, saw a fellow L.H.S. graduate, Trish (surname being withheld for privacy consideration). Although not close friends ourselves back in high school, Trish and I did have some mutual friends. She is now a teacher here in Fayetteville and her husband looked to be in the Army…that or he is adept at assimilating into indigenous cultures. They were doing what apparently everyone does while their parents are in town: take a trip to the museum.
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There were 200 graduates in the L.H.S. class of 1996. According to the CIA World Fact Book, the population of the United States is approximately 300 million people. My fuzzy-logic concludes that the chances of you randomly pulling out a person from the general population, and that person being a part of the L.H.S. class of '96, is 1 in 1.5 million.
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Throughout the weekend, Lauren, myself, and the folks also drove around Fort Bragg, watched two movies, went out for dinner, walked around our neighborhood, and sat around enjoying each other's company. I had not seen them since I left Michigan last September, so it was uber-wonderful to spend time with them again. On Monday morning, John and Jan headed back to MI and made it safely home Monday night. We had a great weekend and look forward to doing it again! Thanks for visiting, you two!
Inspired by the unofficial 10 year class reunion, I'll leave you with this...
It's a world of laughter
A world of tears
It's a world of hopes
And a world of fears
There's so much that we share
That it's time we're aware
It's a small world after all
There is just one moon
And one golden sun
And a smile means
Friendship to every one
Though the mountains divide
And the oceans are wide
It's a small world after all
...I'm sure you know the rest. Happy singing.
