Family Reunion!!!

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Today, I went with most of my family to the annual family reunion. This year it was in a tiny little town! It was splendid.

We played at the park . . .

Ate delicious food and had some good laughs . . .

And heard some hilarious stories from my grandpa and his sister from when they grew up in this quaint town. Then, with our caravan of cars, we drove around the whole city looking at sights from our ancestry (which took about 4 minutes). Like my great-grandmother's old yellow house.

And the house my grandpa and most of his siblings were born in. Literally. Their mother gave birth to them in this wee cabin. Outrageous!

The present owner of this property was kind enough to let all 40ish of us reunion-goers into the cabin (which he now uses as a storage shed) to walk through the grand total of 3 rooms while my grandpa's sister told us where everything was when she lived there and how she had to sleep under the table and go to the outhouse in the winter and clean out the slop jar. Right in the middle of her telling these stories, my grandpa (who had been outside measuring the dimensions of the cabin) walked into the room, threw the tape measure across the length of the room and starting measuring. No one really knows why. Probably to create a replica of it or something. It was hilarious.