Another Day at the Beach

Someone asked if we were in NZ or Australia, so I guess I need to write more. We are in Australia visiting my childhood friends, Bruce and Pam who have been married for over 27 years. I helped them get together back in 1982 in Chilliwack. 

Pam and I met when we were about 2 years old as our parents were best friends (and still are). Many of you have met Helen and Alex at the ball diamond in Chwk and/or at Cultus Lake. We went to high school together and spent lots of time snow skiing and water-skiing and basically just growing up together. We both became teachers. 

Bruce and I met when We were about ten, when I became the first girl (and only girl for the first couple of years) to play soccer in an all boys league that had decided to go co-Ed in about 1975 (that's a whole other story). Starting in Junior high, Bruce and I traveled in the same circle of "jock" friends and "Underground Newspaper" (also another story) and shared many adventures and lots of laughs (we are still laughing!)

Bruce and I both did undergraduate degrees in psych (I was at UVic, he was at UBC). We stayed in touch over the years with our other "core" high school friends. 

Bruce went onto get his PhD in neuropsychology and has travelled the world working at various universities: Detroit, Nashville, New York, Toronto, Hamilton, Cambridge, Durham UK, and now Canberra.

They have two kids: Nicholas (who goes to UVic) and Sarah who is 18 today (legal drinking age in Australia).