Four days

Four days: then we see our friends again for the first time since May/March: we've missed them terribly over the past few months -- and phone/skype-with-video/email just isn't the same.
I know the first few minutes will be great: then a few more minutes of discomfort, discovering and rediscovering conversation threads.... and then everything will be back as though they'd never left.
Oh, and did I mention that we'll be at the beach? For a week?

Yours, champing at the bit,
N.