{"id":718,"date":"2012-03-22T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/03\/spring-break-road-trip-2012-part-3-visiting-old-friends-meeting-new-friends.html"},"modified":"2012-03-22T13:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T13:20:00","slug":"spring-break-road-trip-2012-part-3-visiting-old-friends-meeting-new-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/03\/spring-break-road-trip-2012-part-3-visiting-old-friends-meeting-new-friends.html","title":{"rendered":"Spring Break Road Trip 2012, Part 3: Visiting Old Friends, Meeting New Friends!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things I’m guilty of is trying to balance visiting friends with every trip we take back to the Northeast.  You know who you are!  There are many of you I haven’t been able to see in YEARS because we’re trying to see other friends.<\/p>\n

Now that I’m a GeekMom, there are a dozen+ ladies I want to meet on my travels.  I can’t wait to meet more of you!  I’ll be in the D.C. area (again) and Long Island by the end of the year….<\/p>\n

On this trip, we got to meet up with old friends from Nebraska, North Carolina, and we got to meet up with new GeekMom\/GeekDad friends.<\/p>\n

While we were in WV, we drove out to Centreville, VA and met some friends for dinner.<\/p>\n

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Poor Timmy was sick so he stayed at my parents while the rest of us met the Folzes near Washington,  D.C.  We were neighbors in Nebraska and you might remember these boys from Cub Scout pictures and from our trip to the Ashfall Fossil Beds in summer 2010.  The kids picked up right where they left off — and we grown-ups had a great time catching up.  Dave had so many questions for Nick about his Pentagon commute.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

We met up with Don, Maryann<\/a>, Joey and Johnny at a BBQ restaurant in Durham.  We are so grateful that they made the drive — on a school night! — out to see us! <\/p>\n

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Maryann looked FANTASTIC!!!  I felt so underdressed next to her \ud83d\ude42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Maryann took this nice picture of all four boys actually sitting still!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The following day, I headed over to Southpoint Mall in Durham to pick up a long-awaited iPhone 4S (whoo hoo!) and we had a chance to meet up with our friends the Warlicks for lunch in the food court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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I had taken about 50 pictures of the boys playing at this fountain with my new phone. But then I had some syncing problems when I first plugged it in…I lost those pictures.  But Wendy sent me everything she had on her camera, thanks!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I was so excited to finally get to meet a fellow GeekMom<\/a> author in person! We had an invitation to visit one of the GeekMom editors, Natania Barron and her husband, GeekDad<\/a> writer Michael Harrison. For Natania, Michael and me, it was like old friends seeing each other after a long while, since we talk so much via Facebook, Twitter and our GeekMom discussion boards. But for Dave, he was getting to meet them and talk to them for the first time. We had a fun time enjoying Greek food for dinner — Natania made it all! — and the kids enjoyed a game of Zombie Dice<\/a> with Michael.<\/p>\n

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