There were photos taken of people, grouped by the elementary school they'd gone to. That made it doubly surreal. I'm still not much of a crowd person. I felt comfortable approaching some people, but not others, and there was definitely some feel of clique-ishness at the gathering. They're a pretty good group of people, although no longer the larger social group in which I live, of course.
Life goes on.
But perhaps not more interesting than my drive home afterwards, when I blew the turnoff for the Mass Pike and ended up careening southbound until I was in an area that I felt I could reasonably turn around in without fearing for my life and health. The remainder of my vacation was pretty calm. We had a pretty large Thanksgiving dinner, which was pretty yummy. My Dad come over for it, as did an old friend of my Mom's and her son. Friday afternoon I went into Central Square in Cambridge to visit my old friend Charley Bandes.