One of the best years of my life was my junior year of college. I got to spend the year studying French at the University of Nice, travel around Europe and make some extraordinary friendships.

7 of us have managed to keep in touch but we haven’t all been in one place since then. Again Facebook helped us plan a brunch reunion in NYC.

So yesterday I took the Megabus from Albany to NYC. $10 & free wifi. You can’t beat that. After a stop at Starbucks, I took a leisurely walk to the restaurant.

We ate, drank, looked at old photos, but mostly reminisced and laughed at how crazy we were in college.

Valerie & moi in 1973-4

Valerie, moi, Nancy, Greg & Andrea

Believe it or not, we were at the restaurant for over 4 hours!

Gre, Valerie & Patty

Barbara, me & Nancy

 

all 7 of us

 

 

 

yummy

 

This morning was HMRRC’s One Hour Turkey RaffAL Run.   You get to run for an hour and every time you pass the start, you get a raffle ticket.  It was a nice day… a little cool and breezy but I thought it sounded like fun.

I got there and bumped into running/blogging friends Amanda & Suzy.  It was nice to see a familiar face.  It was pretty crowded ..many more runners than I had expected.

Suzy & Amanda

 We ran the first 4 laps together.  It was at a comfortable pace & I ran without stopping which on my own I might not have done. 

I'm serious here

For the 5th lap, Suzy decided to walk & Amanda ran ahead. I ran most of it but at a slower pace than the 1st 4.

me & Amanda looking happy

When I was done, I ran back to my car to get the jacket & glove I had tossed.  It got chilly waiting for the raffle prize winners to be announced.

They raffled away turkeys, pies, cakes, wine and all sorts of stuff.  We did not win anything!!! 😦

Oh well.  It was fun.  I got the miles in.  Maybe next year, I’ll have better luck.

Happy Running!  Did you have a nice weekend?