2011 Family Reunion in Indiana

It was a whirlwind trip this time, owing to the fact that we had to be back in GR by Saturday night in order to be in church on Sunday morning so I could teach my Sunday School class.

James got home from his beach trip right on schedule, so after he'd spent an hour or so on the road already, we tossed him into the van and made him spend another five hours on the road getting down to Bloomington. His discomfort was probably mitigated by the fact that his girlfriend, Bayli, came down on the trip with us. She handled it all very well, considering all the crazy relatives she met. But then they weren't quite as crazy as they have been in the past. In fact, there weren't quite as many as there has been in the past, which may explain why the whole event was rather quiet, subdued.

So far as I was concerned, it was a fantastic reunion because my brother, Craig, was there, and my sister, Judy, was there, and my folks were there, and we got to go hiking together (except Mom, who was busy catching up on family stories). And the cousins - my kids and Judy's kids - got to go swimming in the pool. And we got to have our traditional home-made ice cream.

Still, it was far too quick of a visit, and it just made me yearn for more time with everyone. We're probably going to need to have a family reunion down in Texas pretty soon so all the Meyer clan can get together. And we'll have to drop in on the crazy cousins in Huntsville on the way down. Maybe even get out to San Antonio to visit some more with cousin Dale.

But we're rapidly running out of summer, and we had already run out of money, so we're gonna hafta lay low for a while and see what happens next around here first.