Reunion time

This past weekend Lars and I flew up to Minneapolis to relive my glory days of college swimming. My sophomore year at the U of MN our swim team won the Big 10 championship for the first time in school history. Michigan had been the dominant team for the 12 years prior to our win so it was a pretty big deal.

We flew up on Friday and my friends Terri, Amy and her hubby Brandon picked us up at the airport. We were all staying with our friends Jenny and Chris and their 18-month old Clare who live about 45 minutes from the airport. We didn't want to be late for the big celebration so we went to check out Dinkytown before the swim meet instead of driving out to their house. Dinkytown hasn't changed too much since we left but all the college kids walking around made me feel old.

Amy and Brandon got married 3 years ago and after that Terri came up with the name for our travel club. It had something to do with the initials of all of our names and we made a deal that we would all meet up at least once a year. We haven't all been together since that wedding. This weekend would have been perfect but our friend Beth, one of the captains from the 1999 team, had to move to France about 10 days before we arrived in MPLS.


After the meet we were all pretty tired from all the excitement so we crashed as soon as we got back to Jenny and Chris' house. We woke up super early on Saturday to make it to swim practice in St. Paul. It was just like the old days except that I am a lot slower now. After practice we went to meet some college friends of Lars, Erik and Bo, for some coffee.


The rest of the weekend was spent telling old stories, bowling, getting to know Clare and playing games like Family Feud and Celebrity. I'm happy to say that Lars, Chris and Brandon got the top score on Family Feud with the name of Da Boyz. The best that the girls team could come up with was the 4th best score.

It was great to see everyone and I am looking forward to the next travel club meeting. We definitely missed Beth and hope next meeting we will all make it.

Special thanks to Mat and Kelly for watching our two pooches this past weekend. Here's a pic of Mat tossing the ball for Thorskie. I'd be willing to bet he woke up with a sore arm the next day! And another one making Kelly look much smarter than her boyfriend!