To: Carolyn who wrote (1693 ) 6/12/1999 9:57:00 PM From: Joana Tides Read Replies (3) | Respond to
Hope you find the link, I'd like to see it. Every day brings it a little closer to the day we move back to the beautiful So. Cal. beachtown I left 11 years ago to return to my hometown here Back East. I lived there for 20 years, and my teenager is looking forward to moving back there after hs graduation, too. We both have old friends and some family's there too, so we visit in the summer. It's a day's flight closer to the South Pacific islands, and it's a better place and weather overall than it is here. So then we'd go back to visiting here back east once a year in the summer, instead of going West like we do now ... at Family Reunion time. I stopped travelling on the holidays after a few years of always catching something from sick people packed on an airplane breathing the same air in the height of cold and flu season. It was often just my luck to be trapped next to someone who was sneezing so, three days later day before Christmas, there I'd be, feverish and sneezing. A few years of that, and no more. Family reunion time in the summer was a better time anyway, got to see all the folks. We've got a big family and they all come to the Reunion Weekend. It's a catered picnic at a covered shelter in a beautiful park in Pa. Dutch Country, real nice hotels nearby. One day the reunion, the next day it's the families visiting the hotels and swimming in the pools with the out-of-towners as hosts of that. No one bothers with potluck and sleepover houseguests anymore (except the old folks are houseguests); it got too big for that when my generation of cousins grew up and multiplied the families and now some have grandkids too. We got 'em from great-greats to itty-bitties at that reunion, it's nice. I missed it last year because that was when I had to make my vacation plans, but will go to it this year again. It's so much fun even the teenagers like it... now that's what I call the Stamp Of Approval!
