Sometimes these emails from Microsoft billing themselves as Microsoft OneDrive Memories From This Day are a bit unsettling.
Such as is the case today.
I am assuming it is correct that these memories are from a day in April. I am also assuming that the year is 2005.
20 years ago.
As in two decades ago.
Two of my favorite nephews, Jason and Joey, and their girlfriends, at that point in time, had been on a cruise, sailing out of Florida, if I am remembering correctly.
If I am additionally remembering correctly, and sometimes I do, Jason and Joey's mother, she being my favorite ex-sister-in-law, Cindy, had let me know when the boys would be landing at D/FW. And that she'd told the boys that she was letting their uncle know they'd be landing.
So, I made it to park at whatever terminal the landing was taking place, somehow found my way to the right gate. Which I know sounds like no big deal. But you would only think that if you've never been to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
It is HUGE.
I have thrice gotten lost just trying to find where I'd parked in a D/FW parking garage.
Anyway, I stood at what I hoped was the right location, and after a few minutes my nephews showed up. I coaxed them out of the gate, which I did not expect to succeed at, but I did.
I then drove the boys and their girlfriends to Lake Grapevine, crossing the dam, going into the park which was the location of the trailhead of my favorite mountain bike trail.
At Lake Grapevine Jason and Jenny had a big announcement.
I was told I was the first to know, but later learned I was not, that being that Jason had proposed, and Jenny had accepted.
And little did I know, that day at Lake Grapevine, that a year later I'd be heading north for a wedding, and two years after that I would be flying up to Washington again, this time getting to meet Jason and Jenny's Spencer Jack offspring.
Now, I must leave you for a moment to see if I can find the photo at Lake Grapevine I took that day two decades ago.
No luck. But the search had me seeing hundreds of photos I had not seen in a long time.
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