Old Friends

Yesterday, I took a nice easy 30+ minutes drive out to Bothell, Washington to see an old college pal of mine. It's been 15 years since our days back in college. She was my 'partner in crime'... well, not so much crime if you consider the things we did... we took trips out to Springfield, Ma to have good Chinese food (there was only ONE place but back then, anything other than pancakes for dinner was good food though I will say, we did have good non-Chinese food on campus...), her crazy trip to Singapore one summer where we had WAY too much fun... our late night chats about boys (yeah they would have to be boys back then; we were, after all, very very VERY young!) and complaining about our American room-mates who drove us insane at times lol! She was the very un-Japanese, Japanese friend of mine and I was the rather not-so-Singaporean, Singaporean friend of hers :)

Fifteen years later, not much has changed. Miwako is still the same girl she was back in school; well, a lot more matured now that she's a mother of an adorable little three year old, Mia, and another baby girl on her way in a few months. For more than five hours, we sat there between the delivered bento boxes and her home-made (absolutely delicious!) cheesecake - and I'm not even a cheesecake fan - we tried to catch up with each other's lives. Sure we've seen each other a few times in Seattle within the 15 years but nothing like a sit-down at home and really getting into the dirt of each other's past lol! Everything about yesterday was simply awesome!

Now that I'm living here, we're both looking forward to seeing each other more... yet another reason why I'm glad to be here. Old friends with history are just so much more fun!