sober fun

Oh last night with the girls was SO great!! I SO regret not calling Liz on New Years, it looks like they all had a great time together! Oh well.  But I'm so glad I got together with Em and Liz, I do love them so much, sometimes you just forget when you're apart for that long (there are, however, the old friends that I don't care to spend too much time with, and thankfully they were not invited to our little rendez-vous).

We ended up talking for 3 hours at the restaurant, the lights coming up, music turning off and chairs going onto the tables clued us in to the fact that we were the last people in there at 10:30, and since we wanted to talk more, we went back to Liz's house and ended up there until 1:30, so that's 6 straight hours of completely sober conversation and reminiscing with friends.  It makes me feel very old to get together with friends and look through old pictures and reminisce about old times.  And in reference to the last post's concerns about the alcohol-free evening, it made me so happy to know that we could have such a great time completely sans booze.  Even Emily said on the phone to her boyfriend on the way to Liz's, "No, we don't need to drink to have fun."  For some reason it's just great to know after living in an alcohol-infused college town bubble for 2 1/2 years that sober fun does still exist!  (Don't get me wrong, I don't think I'll ever kick my partying habits, but sometimes it's nice to actually remember the memories you make with friends).

Well, just 2 more days at home til the wondrous return to Athens!