Well, I couldn't make the reunion, but I recently had the opportunity to visit the old compound.
I went through the door of which used to be the Open Meeting room with mixed feelings. It looked like a Goodwill. Well, actually, the whole place is a glorified Goodwill with elevated prices. I saw a set of glasses from Pier 1 that retailed for about $8.00, and these jokers want $20.00.
But I digress...
I got a little woozy when I followed the hallway from the Meeting room to the rap room - that's when the smell hit me. The SAME smell! My God!! I looked down and realized that it must still be the same carpet. Yikes.
As I emerged into what used to be the Rap Room, I had to giggle at the almost-lifesized statue of Michaelangelo's "David", sans fig leaf. :lol:
It was at this point, I decided to start snapping some photos with my camera phone, and I got slighly unnerved when I first poised the phone, and this 60+ year old guy comes out of nowhere (I could have sworn I was in that room alone!) and asks me something about an auction they apparently hold there. I politely told him this was my first visit (har har), then moved along to the other side of the large room to get a photo from the girl POW's perspective.
"S'cuse me, do you know where they keep the.... "
I spun around again (He came up BEHIND me, both times!) and just stared at him, daring him to say something about me breaking some rule, which he didn't. "My first time, remember?" Ah, yeah. I'm not the paranoid type, but that guy had me wondering. No familiar faces in there.
D'oh! Can't post the photos quite yet though, until I find the cable to offload the pix from the phone to the computer. Something is wrong with my pix messaging function, so we'll just have to wait.
Nothing can capture that smell though! **shudder**
