Friends.Keys.Teeth.Wallet.Sanity.

We've spent a week at Andrew's 1-yr Stanford reunion seeing old friends, meeting new babies, re-meeting kids who are a year older than when we left (which is a huge % of their lifespan!), eating, drinking, and trying to sleep in between. It's been a bit of a blur. Here's my blurry thoughts: 1. Apparently the U.S. has a big effect on Nick - he sat up on his own for the first time the day we arrived, and got his first tooth the next day. 2. Our kids travel and do jet lag pretty well, all things considered. But when there's three variables (er, I mean kids), and they get up briefly overnight 2 times each, and one of them, being 6 months old, is awake and smiling from 12-2am, the mother doesn't get much sleep at all and takes a whole lot longer to get over jet lag. 3. Kids become friends again like no time ever passed, and adults can too. 4. If you're the adult, it's pretty annoying to lock your keys in a rental car along Hwy 1 between Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz. And then strange to feel both thankful and annoyed to the person who arrives and jimmies it in 30 seconds. But if you're the kids who get to play in the dirt and rocks and find flowers to put in your ears while all this is happening, it's not so bad. And if there are a couple of friends who you were supposed to be meeting in Santa Cruz who happily get in their car and drive 45 extra minutes to come meet you, you know they are really good friends. 5. Living in community here was really fun and I miss it. 6. I think it's funny that I still get surprised by how big things are in America - the picture below is of a regular coffee cup and 1.18 Litre bottles of shampoo and conditioner!!! 7. Any family who has a 6 week old baby and chooses to put up with our troops in their house for 4 nights are either numb or really coping well. 8. On Friday it rained all day, I lost my wallet and my sanity. I'm not kidding. Wallet still missing. Sanity a bit back in tact. 9. I can't wait to see my family tomorrow. 10. I realized I would have preferred to pack the car and drive to Oregon from here rather than fly. Bummer bout that.