Two Oriole's tickets - $54.00, refreshments - $40.00, parking - $10, an evening at Camden Yards with my Aleigh and her family - priceless.Do you have a friend that no matter how much time passes, you pick up right where you left off? For me, that friend is Aleigh. We lived together right out of college in Indiana. The last time I saw her was at my wedding in 1996. From there life took her around the country with her husband's job and I allowed life to get in between a really special friendship. Soon I didn't know where she was ... everytime I heard the Indigo Girls I would think of her and smile, but then my heart would get heavy because I had lost touch with someone I cared about deeply. And then nearly 6 months ago my long lost friend found me. It was another Facebook reunion. I cried tears of joy as I went through her albums and saw her beautiful three children. She and John looked just as happy as the day I watched them get married. She was now living in Philly and the chances of seeing my long lost friend were very high. We tried for a President's Day reunion but that didn't pan out. My patience was going to have to see me through to summer. But today, out of the blue, came a phone call that made me drop everything I had planned, jump in my car, and meet my friend and her fabulous family at Camden Yards. The Detroit Tigers were John's favorite team and they were playing the Orioles. I was going to see my Aleigh after 14 years....
She found me first in the crowd at the Inner Harbor. And we hugged and screamed and carried on like school girls. Then I hugged John and then looked at her 3 gorgeous children in awe. Zoe - was Aleigh's face on John's body, Little John was a Kozinski but with Aleigh's personality, and Mac was a Joleigh, a perfect mixture of the two of them. I observed the three of them take turns with Cody - they all interacted with him and made him feel like a part of the Kozinski clan. I was impressed with how well the 3 Kozinski's got along. They didn't bicker, argue or tease. They were a team and were real sports to let Cody play for the day.
It was a night of special events...the reunion of two friends from long ago, Cody caught his first baseball, I almost got a concusion from a 90 mile an hour practice pitch, Mac caught a ball, and then all 4 of them got signatures from 2 of Detroit's relief pitchers (#45 and ? - John of course knew them all) then Little John got on the big screen because he was two feet behind the Detroit player in left field who dropped the ball, then a minute later Big John's phone rang with a call from his brother in Michigan who had just seen Little John in his Edwardsburg Eddies t-shirt on TV, and of course there was the Oriole rookie Wieters who got his first MLB hit. It was a night of BIG hits and I drove home exhausted but feeling high from God's blessings - He had just given me a spa treatment for my soul.
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