A great friend of mine from Dallas called us a few weeks ago. He was on a layover in LA and wanted to hook up for a few hours. Unfortunately, we were in Berkeley at the time. However, we arrnaged to meet Rob in San Diego a couple of weeks later when he was down there on another trip.

It was a busy week. We had just spent a week in the Midwest visiting my family, then Kirk flew to Maui the day we got home from Kansas and flew back to LA the night before we were to drive to San Diego. We were up early to make the 2+ hour drive.

During my two years of living in Dallas full-time, Rob was one of my closest friends. He's a biologist by education and a photographer by trade. An excellent photographer, I might add. As part of our wedding gift, he shot a roll of black and white for us. He got what was, by far, the best photo of us coming down the aisle after we were married - the only one that wasn't blurry, I might add. That photo is, perhaps, my favorite from our entire wedding. It's the one I blew up and gave to our families. Rob recently started his own photography business, RC Photographic Productions.

Anyway, we hadn't seen Rob in at least two years - not since Dianne's wedding. We picked him up at his hotel and then drove down to the Gas Lamp Quarter in downtown San Diego. We walked around a bit and then finally headed over to a Mexican place called "Fred's" (yes, we all laughed at the name). Lunch was good, though not quite "authentic". We had a very nice time, chatting and catching up. All-in-all, it went too quickly, as it usually does when visiting friends we don't see often.

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