K is for KELLY..Komodo Island

K.. would have to be for KELLY.. one of my BEST Friends in the entire  world.

I met Kelly my Jr. year of High School -

 when I moved

ONCE AGAIN...

This was my THIRD  High school... this time in Wilmington,Dela-where? 

 I remember eating my lunch in the bathroom for the first two weeks until my mother threatened to call the Principal...if I didn't go into the cafeteria....

Anyone who has had to move, especially in High School or Jr. High, knows that going into the cafeteria is the WORST part of starting a new school... Where are you going to sit?

When I finally braved St. Marks lunch room... I quietly took my tray & sat at the end of a long table... with a bunch of girls I didn't think would mind. The details of almost 20 years has blurred in time... but I know that this was where I had my first contact with Kelly.

She came over to the table to asked me to sign her Student Council petition...& invited me to eat lunch at her table, thus... saving me from being branded a "dork" for the rest of my years at St. Marks...

(come on, I know it sounds mean...but we were in HIGH SCHOOL)

That was the first of many times Kelly would come to my "rescue". Oh the stories I can tell from my years spent in Delaware.... Although I say we were bad... we weren't really... we both had a desire to see what lay out in the greater tri-state area... Philly, New Jersey, New York....(oh the places our crappy cars took us.) & we both liked boys in uniform.
We spent our summers together working as lifeguards, going to the shore & cruising South Street . She helped me hear the difference between words like Bin & Ben... (I still had my Southern drawl at that point) & she made Delaware bearable...even fun for me.

 

 

Kelly came to spend the summer with me, while I was living in Mannheim Germany..

We backpacked through Europe

 

& dated Best Friends.

My boyfriend & I broke up..

Kelly got married.. and I was her maid of honor

 

I haven't seen Kelly in 8 (- EIGHT- ) years..

But this K post comes at the perfect time.. cause GUESS WHAT?

Kelly is COMING to NORWAY.. TOMORROW!

can you tell I am just a weee bit excited?

She is in Prague at a conference.. and is just going to pop by Norway on her way home...

Promise to take loads & loads of pictures...

K is for KOMODO ISLAND...

Komodo is one of the 17,508 islands that make up the Republic of Indonesia. Komodo island is particularly notable as the natural habitat of Komodo dragon, the largest lizard on earth, named after this island

The Komodo Dragon is HUGE.. and although they appear to move slow...

the Park Ranger who brought us out to the Island assured us, they can out run us.. & rip our legs off to boot..

So don't do anything STUPID. :-)

The Dragons were running wild over the island  - pretty amazing when I think  back.

I can't seem to find any pictures from my afternoon on the island

Only VHS tapes..?  Hello?

I don't know what my deal was back then, why did it have to be one or the other?

Video or still photos?

Perhaps that is why I insist on always having  a camera with me now...

I missed so many great shots back in the day...

OK.. off to get everything ready for my friends visit!

Have a fabulous Thursday.

 


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