future batesies (flashback!)

A few weeks ago we got together with a bunch of Bates friends. I really cannot believe that it's been over ten years since Thad and I graduated. We're no longer "young alumni" (according to the alumni office, that is). Ugh. Anyway, Bates has this weirdly high percentage of Bates graduates who married other Bates graduates, and that's definitely true among our friends. And now those friends are having little Bates offspring, like Nate. Our friend Meredith (a Bates alumna, of course) had a bunch of people over for a barbecue at her new house and there were a bunch of Batesies' kids there, and they had a blast running around the yard, playing in a fancy inflatable pool, and playing together.