Your Bestest Friends Know You When You're Wearing Paper Underwear

Today was a trip to Calais. This traditional port city has long been a place of battle between the French and the English as each side fought for rights to claim the land as their own. Today the French....Donald and I... met with the English...Shawna and Mason and shared this beautiful seaside town, enjoying a picnic and catching up on the last few years. Since her wedding in Ottawa almost 3 years ago...where does the time go???? Shawna and Nathan had a baby, Mason who is now almost 2, travelled another hunk of the world and some back and forth to visit her family in Canada and left her job as a flight attendant, not to mention being a mommy! We shopped a the local grocery, made ourselves a picnic, to which Shawna had brought along the necessaries...blanket, cutlery, soccer ball and wet naps, and we made for the white sand beach, with a quick detour for some boardwalk fries. She is still as beautiful as she was on her wedding day, her son a gorgeous mix of them both but with that strong Todd gene coming out in sweet brown eyes and charming smile. We chatted like we had just seen each other a week ago, familiar and comforting to hear the laughter that shared my college years and our friendship that has spanned almost 12 years though we have always been separated by at least and 8 hour flight! Now things are changing again, with another cheeky monkey in the picture, visas due to expire and a world of new opportunities. We can only wish that they will be a bit closer...still and 8 hour flight to Alberta.....but I know wherever they are we will find a way to meet!!!