Flash Me Back...Friendship

  Flashback Friday is a place for all things reminiscence.  Flashbacks can be personal recollections or they can also be looks back to the “Good Old Days” of our collective past.

    

    Do you know Marla?  She is one of my dearest and oldest friends(no she isn't old, but she has been around a long time.)  You really should ask Marla about how we met, because I forget everything, but I think it was in one of our classes at John Muir Middle School in Wausau, Wisconsin.  I was a geek and said ridiculous things.  Marla was more cool but laughed at my ridiculous sayings.

    Marla has been one of my favorite traveling pals for many years.  The picture above is from a road trip we took to California.  Road trips have been a staple in our friendship.  Marla would often fly out to visit me in Utah and then we would drive to Wisconsin.  We had so much fun it should be illegal.

    Time with Marla is always easy and fun.  We can talk about so many things and have often been known to stay up until the wee hours of the morning laughing and chatting.  Even if we haven't seen each other in a very long time, it is like we have never been separated. 

    Here are a few of my favorite pictures from our wonderful adventures:

Here is Marla sledding in the middle of the night on one of our Christmas-time adventures in Wisconsin.

Taking in a Milwaukee Brewer game.

And a Green Bay Packer game!

Walking across The Brooklyn Bridge in New York.

Hiking to the Arch in Southern Utah.

Exploring Bryce Canyon in Utah.

    Since Covid has hit, traveling is out of the question, but as soon as this crazy time is over, Marla and I are planning another adventure, aren’t we Marla?

And for the time being, I am just going to sit here and smile as I think about how wonderful a life-long friendship truly is.  And I am going to publicly thank Marla for having my back and making me laugh for over 25 years.  Cheers to us! (and thank heavens I couldn’t find any real old pics of us!)