Breakfast with Ed

I had a happy reunion with Ed last Thursday morning at the McDonald's on Bulldog. Ed, to answer to answer your questions is a super cool girl that I worked with at Camp Cloudrim. Finding old camp friends is not an easy task for me...especially ones from Cloudrim(which was my favorite camp experience).

First there is the whole name debacle. Since everyone at camp goes by camp names remembering their "real" name can be almost next to impossible at times. It would be convenient if people just listed themselves as their camp name in phone books or on facebook but that doesn't seem to be the trend among camp folk. Then there is the fact that I left on my mission to Japan right after I got home from camp and thus lost track of just about everyone.

So here's Ed's story... Ed got married when I was on my mission and moved to my favorite place, Oregon! So of course we were destined to find each other again. Like the week before I went up to Oregon in March of this year Ed joined facebook and we found each other. So while I was in Oregon for the week Leslie and I went down to Corvallis to visit Pesto(another camp friend) and Ed came up from Eugene and we went out to dinner with Ed and her 3 year old daughter Ahna. It was really fushigi(strange yet familiar?) It was crazy to see Ed after so many years and find that she hasn't changed at all. So a week or so before the recent reunion I noticed that Ed was online via yahoo chat... and I pinged her. She answered back and we started to chat and I found out that she was coming down to Utah the next week to visit family(her husband Colby was on a business trip back East)and she would be passing through Provo. So we set up a second rendezvous on Thursday December 4th.

We met at McDonald's because they have an indoor playground so Ahna and Ed's 18 month old nephew that was in tow could be somewhat entertained. It was wonderful to see Ed again. Ed was one of my favorite camp people at Cloudrim(and you too Moose). She was so genuine, fun, creative and sweet. She was always helping everyone with everything and played the occasional joke which was fun to be in on ;) I brought my camp pictures and we looked through them and reminisced about campy things. It was fun and it made me realize how magical Summer Camps have been for me. It was a short visit but it was wonderful to see her. We decided that since both of our reunions have been last minute miracles that we were meant to be friends. I'm excited to head back up to Oregon and go backpacking with Ed next time.

I was very sad that I didn't take any pictures of Ed while she was here :( So I stole a picture of her off of her facebook;) Here she is with her daughter Ahna.