Tyler's Very Best Friend

The 4.5 of them. (Lana is 7 mos pregnant)
Adam's boat and shark cage.

In 1988, when Tyler was just 8 he found his perfect friend living just down the road from us in New Plymouth. Adam Al-agez was equally daring-do and the two diminutive adventurers roamed the area having no end of fun. Adam was the very best friend Tyler ever had and his parents, our good friends who we visited last week, said Adam cried for days when Tyler left in '88. Fortunately we have kept the Christmas card communications going over the years and Sheryl and I even visited Adam and Lana in Tauranga in 2003. They are a GREAT young couple and we knew if Adam and Tyler ever hooked up again they would pick right up again.....
Of course it happened.
Ty, Meghan, Adam and Lana had met once during their winter and vowed to get together again when it was warm and they had some time to spend together. Surprise, Adam's great love is fishing! But now his time is spent in his beautiful boat fishing in the ocean, not with a flyrod on the trout streams. (Does this sound like Tyler? - Adam has built a shark cage to go out and watch the Mako Sharks of New Zealnd from 2 feet away). So this week they are staying with Adam and Lana at their house RIGHT ON THE BEACH, and Monday they went fishing in the ocean (I got invited along - yippee) and Tuesday they went trout fishing. ( I still have no report on that day, but we did catch a few snappers out in the ocean). It has been such a pleasure to watch them all together and to see what a fine fine young man Adam is. The more we see of Adam and Lana the more we like them.
I have no idea when they will ever again meet, but as our lives have unfolded we somehow have managed to repeatedly see our Kiwi friends, all of whom we first met 37 years ago. We will just wish them all the best.