A visit with an old friend on the Starship Enterprise

It's almost too much for a girl to take.  A visit with a dear friend from high school PLUS Diver Ed.  So much good stuff going on.

Facebook can be downright creepy at times (maybe sometime I'll write about all of the conversations I have had with students about what NOT to say/do on facebook) but I have to say that staying in contact with old friends is the jewel in the crown. 

At Orono High School, I could count on my friend Doug Bost to see the world in a slightly different way.  We were bringing wacky Woody Allen one-act plays to life while friends in my other worlds were listening to Whitesnake and anticipating chem-free dances at the Bounty Taverne.  

His yearbook message to me was written like a screenplay.  It had stage directions, if I remember correctly.  He had one foot in Orono, Maine and another in Washington Square Park.  

And he is in NYC today - a real life Ad Man.  (I'm a little obsessed with Mad Men so I'm still processing the coolness of this) I am so psyched that I got to see him, meet his wife Carolyn and little girl Acadia.  Acadia was born on December 28th, 2007  -  just a few weeks before Noah.  Two wonderful four-and-a-half year olds with willful wild personalities!  What could be better?

Well, maybe add those wonderful four 1/2 year olds to a boat called the Starship Enterprise.  Diver Ed is fantastically cool.  He's a scallop diver in the winter, and primo entertainer in the summer.  He squeezes himself into a dive suit

and then heads to the ocean floor to see what he can find.  That day, we met sea stars, sea cucumbers, sea urchins, flounder, lobster, crab, shrimp and I'm sure I'm forgetting something.  The kids had a ball checking it all out. 

The Bost Family on the Starship Enterprise

Diver Ed shows Noah a scallop

And then we head to Mount Desert Island Ice Cream .  I mean, President Obama "strongly recommends it," so it behooves me to stop by and get a cone.  Today, I had salt butterscotch in a pretzel cone.  Oh my. 

The kids ran around in the park and Doug, Carolyn, Lisa and I chatted about everything from babies to  farming and back to elementary schools.

Acadia sitting quietly on the monument; Noah running around like a looney. 

Eli says hello 

Yoga kids

A moment when all the stars aligned. 

We are lucky people.  Here's to a great day in Maine and old friends.

Faith, Eli, Doug and Carolyn