It might
have required an hour-long journey (a shuttle, the Bart train and the CalTrain),
but having survived day one of my training and the journey, I was very excited
to spend my Monday evening having dinner with Heidi and Charlie at their lovely
house in Palo Alto.
They met me from the train (the
CalTrain is a double decker shiny black machine – it’s a far cry from the
SouthernRail trains that used to take me home each weekend - how very
exciting!) and we made our way to a very cute local bar for a quick drink
before dinner. It’s amazing how you can all be living a completely different
life since you last met up – I’ve moved to Singapore, they’ve been married and
relocated to American, but when it comes down to it, we all just picked up
exactly where we left off, and it was great to see them and to have a proper
chance to chat.
After a nice little glass of wine,
we made our way over to their house, which was utterly lovely! They had lit it
all up with Christmas style lights, the table was laid and ready for us, the
dinner had been made and just needed bringing out of the over, and the
chocolate biscuits and tea for dessert was also all laid out and ready to go.
Dinner was a delicious serving of
meatballs and ‘eggplant’ with salad and tasty yoghurt dressing, which Heidi had
whipped up for us specially. Then there
was tea and biccy’s on the sofa whilst we continued to catch up and try to make
some plans for more visits in the future (although it really is a very long
journey).
Eventually, with the time zone
issues and the promise of another super early night, I had to concede that it
was time to make my way home. As it was past 10pm, it was looking like the trip
back over might take me up to two hours to complete. Heidi, being an absolute
star actually volunteered to drive me the full 50 minutes back in the end, so
armed with a couple more treats and some very cheesy music, we drove a full
loop around the bay and back over to Emeryville and reality for this week.
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