Reunion 2008

We wish you were here, but you're not, so you'll have to just read about it instead of experiencing it in full 3-D.

First of all, we slept in. What can I say? We're tired. Or just lazy. The girls slept in Grandma and Grandpa's room, so they were up early to get breakfast; but the rest of us didn't bother getting out of bed til 7 or 8 or something. Even then, Cheryl and the boys headed down for breakfast before I even got out of bed, so I get the Laziness Award for the day.

After breakfast, some folks headed out to the stores to get more food (as if we were ever going to run short!!) while we went back to our room - all six of us this time - and watched cartoons and cruised the web until it was time to head out to the park. Which we did, finally, around 11:30 or so.

Saw Doc and Beverly on the way out of town. They had a car-ful!

Got to the park around noon, unloaded the car, sent the kids off to play, wandered around saying hello to everyone, met some people we didn't know, met a lot of people we did know and hadn't seen in a long time.

Absences of note: Lee Albertson is non-ambulatory. We all missed him and his silly jokes. Joe and Betty were dealing with the loss of power out at their farm, so they were scrambling to get something put together for the ice cream feast later on tonight.

Lateness of note: Bob and Joyce et al were MIA for awhile, but showed up after we'd started eating (finally!) so they didn't miss out. Got to see Robby and Ricky and Rachel (Rachel is the one wearing the batman outfit).

Unexpected arrivals: Nancy. Didn't realize she had moved back to Indiana, but she has. Good to see her and her family.

The girl cousins - Deb and Mary and Braelyn and Rebekah and Braelyn's cyberFriend (whose name escapes me) ran off to play. The boy cousins - Adam and James and Brason and Caleb - were last seen watching Bob's chess demo.

The food was wonderful, as expected. Doc's bratwurst was superb, as usual. I had only a small pile this year, as there isn't much room in my tummy these days and I was saving room for that yummy home-made ice cream later on.

We had our traditional afternoon at the pool with the kids, which normally takes place while the adults are taking their traditional hike to the falls; then James and Mary and I took a hike to the falls after we were done at the pool; and then we all finished the clean-up of the site and got back in our cars and drove to Joe and Betty's for dinner leftovers and ice cream.

Many hours of visiting later, we departed for the motel where it was time to settle down, clean up, watch some TV (History Channel, of course!), surf the web (looking for DS skins), and hit the sack.

All in all, a very fulfilling day.