forever friends

My dear dear friend from college, Nate, visited us this weekend.  We studied music together at University of Colorado at Boulder and were roommates for a year.  He is an amazing pianist and we used to play together a lot, so the night he flew in Travis and I went and bought an electric piano so he and I could play together.   We had decided on a few pieces to learn before he got here so we could just put them together.  The night he got here we stayed up late into the night playing.  We played until we got tired and sore and relished every single moment of it!   We played Meditation from "Thais" in church (the song you're listening to) and later that day we played Czardas by Monti in a recital.  

The last time Nate visited us when in Albany when Veda was a couple months old.  He loved seeing the girls and they LOVED him.  
Travis took Nate on a hike overlooking the Napali Coast.   He lives in a metropolitan city so he wanted as much nature as he could get.  He got up every morning to watch the sunrise on the beach and watched it set every night as well.  He even managed to get me up to watch a sunrise with him!!  

Since I knew Nate was coming, I decided to schedule a Suzuki violin recital while he was here so he could accompany the kids.  It worked out perfect and he said it was one of the highlights of his life.  Here he is playing with Veda at our performance class.  
We squeezed more fun into 4 days then I thought was possible.   It was so good to reconnect with him and reminisce and build new memories all at the same time.