Random Flashback for Friday 2/27/15

(As continued from last week ... )

Ah yes.  All good things must come to an end.

Ironically, that works for how this is the last flashback to that trip we all took to DC in January twenty years ago ... and it also pretty much summarizes the thoughts of the person who I think actually took this photo.  When the group of us was out and about, he pulled back from the others and was walking behind, taking it all in.  I checked in with him, and he said something to the effect of how "... this ... *this* would never happen again".

True enough, all of us went on to our adult lives ... and now, with the exception of the Facebook, not everyone is in regular contact with everyone else.  But for that weekend ... the culmination of our coming of age ... we were all the bestest of buddies.  Once and for all, here's how I explained our activities in my annual holiday letter in 1995:

"The group descended on Washington DC in January for an overnight stay on the same night Pearl Jam was in town.  Even though we didn't have a private fortune to scalp tickets, we did hang out in front of the music center and we bought some balloons [note:  you had to be there]  Then we struck out for our own little nighttime tour of the monuments, got our feet wet in the wading pool like Forrest Gump, and took the picture of the ten of us touching the Washington Monument [note:  too dark to include in this series] ..."

One last note:  the picture I *really * regret somehow losing along the way ... five of us that shared a van on the way home stopped by the side of a road, urinating in a corn field, backs turned to the camera.  Had we ever formed a band (not that we were really musically inclined that way or anything), it would have been our album cover *for sure*.  Now, that photo, which was one of those fancy panoramic shots back in the day when that was new to cameras, is lost to the ages ... but at least we have our memories!