Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Back From A Brief Stay In Cottage Land

Vicki and I spent from yesterday morning until around noon today up at a cottage outside Bayfield. Our friend Julie is up there for the week and invited us for an overnight visit, so off we went for an impromptu mini-vacation. We did some walks on the beach, played with Julie's dog and cat, and watched the 2nd and 3rd installments (7-Plus-Seven and 21-Up) in the amazing British Up documentary series. And we talked. A lot.

Conversation continued well into the wee hours of the morning, as it usually does when we get together with this particular friend. We even role played what sort of things each of us might have said had we been featured on a series like Up. It was really fascinating to me to both hear what Vicki and Julie thought they'd be talking about at ages 7, 14, 21, etc., and to try to come up with where my own head would have been at during those same stages of my life. It's actually an illuminating exercise that I'd recommend for anyone to do with extremely close friends and loved ones, especially if you didn't know each other in your younger years. For inspiration, rent any of 7-Up, 7-Plus-Seven, 21-Up, 28-Up, 35-Up, 42-Up or 49-Up or get the whole collection (linked to above).

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