Mouth Watering

I thought I would talk about rhubarb today. I have not had any in years and I grew up eating it and loving it. I was in the grocery store yesterday and saw some for sale and it brought back memories of my childhood days so I bought a couple of stalks. I guess most people use it in strawberry pies but I grew up eating it raw, dipped in a little salt. It is very tart, sort of like a lemon and I love those sprinkled with salt too. It makes your mouth water just to think about it and it is delicious. I ate the first stalk when I got home and have the other one in the refrigerator waiting for another day. I am certain the salt is not good for me but I have to have salt with it so decided to wait a couple of days before eating the second stalk. YUM!

Cabin Snafu

On what we thought was our last day in the cabin we were surprised to learn that we had to check out. Some how we had over stayed our reservation. Back last fall we tried making a reservation for the cabin and they were all reserved for the week we needed however the lady was kind enough to take down my name and number incase there were any cancellations. In early January I received a call from her that a cabin was available so we reserved it. We had also reserved a camping spot in the same park because at the time we thought we would be taking our RV. The cabin was for our kids if they came. As the reunion time approached and the gas prices climbed higher and higher we decided to fly and stay in the cabin. Jamie was our only child coming so we had the entire cabin. Our camping site reservation was thru Friday with check out on Saturday. Somehow we "thought" the reservation for the cabin was for the same dates. On Friday we were at the cabin when the cleaning crew came to clean up and get the cabin ready for the people who had reserved it for that night. Oops! We had to pack up in a hurry and move out then find another place to stay the last night. Lucky for us there was a lodge not too far away that had a room available so we moved there for our last night. Always a little excitement!

Fax Machine Game

On one of the last nights together there were only eleven of us left and we played a game called Fax Machine that Jamie taught us. It is based on the old childhood game of Telephone. In this one we all sat in a circle and each person had eleven blank index cards. We were instructed to number the cards 1-11. (The number depends upon the number of people playing). Next we each had to write down a short phrase on card #1. After 30-seconds we had to pass our entire deck of cards to the person to our left. Now each person had a card with a phrase on it and they had to take card #2 and draw a little picture of the phrase. Every 30-seconds the deck would be passed to the left and every other time we were to write a phrase based on the drawing or draw a picture of the phrase that was passed to us. It got hectic but we managed. Once the cards have traveled around the circle you end up with your own deck of cards with card #1 on top. We then each took turns revealing our original phrase then what all followed. It was hilarious! Some stayed pretty close to the original but most took drastic turns and ended up being something entirely different from the original. What fun! Thanks for teaching us that game Jamie. Below are a couple of pictures of us playing Fax Machine.

David Gets Around

David seemed to get around this week while at the reunion. This was the first year we had both his mother's side of the family as well as his father's side of the family at the reunion together. Below are a few of the photos of David with various family members.

Shooting with his Dad

playing a game one night with nephew Ned

looking at a map with his Dad

posing with daughter Jamie

being goofy with cousin Kevin

smiling with cousin Karen

singing with brother Austin

and looking handsome with me!