Saturday, July 5, 2008

Standish, 50th reunion, & Family at Hart

What a great 2 ½ weeks we have had! We started out in Standish, at Saginaw Bay Resort, where cousin Fern & Clarence joined us for a week. Between playing cards, bike riding, eating, and just catching up, we had a good time. Sister Janet & Bill came up one day for dinner.
We then went to Chesaning in order to attend our 50th Class Reunion, held in Owosso. Thursday night, we had classmates Kay & Bea (and Bea’s husband Charlie) over for dinner. Friday night was the reunion in Owosso, where we had nearly 100 classmates, spouses, & former teachers in attendance. The picture is of Laura, Kay & Bea, good friends in high school. We also managed to have breakfast with Howard & Bonnie Ruff Fri, Sat & Sun, along with Jim, Gail, and other old friends.
While in Chesaning, we visited the Chesaning Museum, which had a special display of the area’s 1 room school houses. They did a nice job with it. For those not in Hart, this picture includes someone that you know. Go ahead, study the picture, and then let us know which one it is, and who it is – NO cheating!

Rich, Deb, Sara & Cami all flew into Flint on Sat. Rich & Laura went to the Buick Open on Sunday, while I packed up and headed for Hart. Oh what a week!

Monday am & Wed, Bart, Joe, Rich, & I played golf. We also had campfires, played games, and ATE. Tuesday night, we all headed downtown for the fireworks, had ice cream while waiting for them to start. Hopefully the video of the finale will work.
Wed afternoon, we headed for the beach. The kids played in the water, we played horseshoes on the beach, and Bart landed a BIG fish after a real struggle, by hand! (Ask him about it). We also had fish to eat from Bortell’s, some of each they have for sale! That night was a birthday cake for Rich & Joe, took both of them to blow out the candles.

Friday, it was to Sparta, to Julie & Steve’s for a family get-together. It was good to see all the Van Sickle side of the family, and the setting was just great. The kids had fun playing in the pool, we had a birthday cake for Neal (and all the other July birthday people).
Today, everyone is gone, Rich & Deb flying home, Joe & Cindy to Camp. As I type this, Laura & I are enjoying total peace & quiet, and sorry the week has ended.

4 comments:

The 2 Loons said...

Don't know what I did wrong, but none of the pictures will open into larger image - sorry. For the 1 room picture, you might try saving the pic to your computer, and then enlarge it. Or let me know, and I can email the original. Actually, that would work on any of the pics.

Rich Milano said...

What a week is right!!! I need to go back to work so that I can get some rest after such a fun week! Loved seeing the family, and will be posting some pics over on my blog as well.

Craig & Priscilla Coe said...

Thanks for the pictorial of the week! So glad that you all had fun and didn't strangle each other with so many in a small space. ;)

John and Deb Whitehead said...

We had a great time! Paula 'taught' Sara a trick to get Cami to sleep through the night which is working awesome. I think I spent most of Sunday just doing laundry and napping. I will be posting some pictures to our blog site, hopefully yet this week.