Inner Circle

Those of you in the real world probably already know this, but we're actually in the middle of a long weekend because Monday is President's Day.  A group of my friends from college, self-dubbed the "Inner Circle," decided to take advantage of the holiday and rented a house on Lake Anna for three days.  I took a break from studying to go spend the day with them in Bumpass, VA where the vacation house is located.  Yes, you read that right: there is actually a place in our honorable commonwealth called Bumpass.

Anyway, it was good to catch up with everybody, to meet some new significant others, but most importantly, to retell the following story with Caroline:

Once upon a time, we were all on a tour of the South with Jubilate, our undergraduate Christian choir.  Our final destination was Orlando, where we got a day off to do whatever we wanted.  Obviously, the Inner Circle chose to spend it at Disney World.  As you may know, every night they have a fireworks extravaganza that is narrated by Jiminy Cricket.  At the end of the show, he sings, "When You Wish Upon a Star."  The song swells as the fireworks display becomes more elaborate, and just when you think it can't get any more dramatic, a children's choir joins in for the chorus.

At exactly that moment, Caroline and I turned to face each other and said, simultaneously, "Children's choirs: they really pull at the heartstrings."

And from that moment on, Caroline and I knew that despite her engagement to her now-husband Erik, we shared a deep and special bond that could never be broken.  The type of bond that makes us say incredibly bizarre sentences at exactly the same time.