| | We had such a great evening, celebrating July 4th at the Bachmanns. Iris is the consummate Navy wife and she definitely knows how to throw a party. It was so beautiful to sit outside under the trees and amid the festive decorations, eating all the great foods she'd prepared.
What really made the evening was the fireworks display. San Diego puts on four separate big shows along the bay, each perfectly synchronized so that the same, exact display lights up at the same time. On the city side, you'd be choosing one venue and watching that show, but from Iris' house we could stand/sit in her yard and front porch and see all four going off at once, against a backdrop of San Diego skyline. Truly beautiful. In between the pops, the silence was broken by all the seagulls flying about and crying out to each other.
Iris told me she got quite a shock when she first spied Tim, as he looked exactly like Martin when we all first met. While I would dispute that observation of exact twinship with Martin, her remark did bring home the fact that we were Tim and Joy's age when we first began to be friends. That's a loooong time -and, in some ways, just a blink of an eye. |
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