It had been about twelve years since I had seen my uncle Mark and though I was raised in a separate state and only saw him once or twice a year while growing up I always felt we had a special connection and I always looked forward to seeing him. I guess the last time he was in town was the Christmas of my senior year in high school. That summer I left for college and didn’t have any family in Eugene, Oregon, which is where I was studying.
After I left it seems like that’s when my family started to have various scheduling conflicts and life interruptions that halted regular visits and celebrations. I wasn’t able to go home the first year and the second year uncle Mark wasn’t able to visit. In addition, I was the last of my brothers and sisters as well as cousins to graduate high school and I think the older generation relaxed a little with major family engagements. Whatever all the reasons ended up combining and causing a halt to family activity planning, it turns out that I had not seen my favorite uncle in almost twelve years. So, last summer I took it upon myself to find one of Boulder’s quaint hotels and make reservations as well as for a plane flight.
Oh, in case you’re thinking that I might have been imposing on him, I did contact him first and make sure that he was free and would be there on the weekend I planned to visit. I was terribly excited because not only was I going to get to see my uncle Mark, but this would be the first time that I visited him on my own. That also made me slightly nervous, but I’m an adult now, right? Exactly, I felt kind of like a kid again. Aside from a few math problems and logic puzzles I had sent to him to solve over the years, we had very little communication. It was limited to standard annual birthday and seasonal cards. Luckily we enjoyed some of the standard tourist attractions such as visiting the Mork and Mindy House and University of Colorado Campus, which made conversation easy. We also had some great food and laughs while I was there. In fact, it was so nice for both of us my uncle Mark asked me to return next year.
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