While Miss Riggs visited (see Heavenly Houseguests) we took a trip to New York City. Our main reason for going was to see Ellis Island – Miss Riggs re-created the immigration experience of Ellis Island at her middle school to culminate a unit study on immigration. One of the other highlights of the day was visiting Mike Romo – a classmate of mine from the 5th grade, and student of hers from the 6th grade. Mike and I sat next to each other in her Spanish class her first year of teaching, and traveled to Mexico with her and about 20 other students after our eighth grade year of Spanish. We have all managed to stay in touch through high school – Mike and I were prom dates our senior year as neither of us had dates, college – Mike played football at SMU and I roomed with his girlfriend at UT so we made many trips to Dallas for games, married life – he was an usher at my wedding/I couldn’t go to his as I was 9 months pregnant with Cooper, and parenthood/careerhood – he has a beautiful wife, Wende and two adorable girls, Morgan and Reagan, and a successful business career in NYC. He and Miss Riggs share their birthday month and have been in touch at least once a year because of this. What a blessing to have old friends!