Thursday, August 25, 2005
FRIDAY................
The day of reconing! Well today is the day to find out who does and doesn't show up. We had my Aunt Jackie and Uncle George and their son Mark show up. They traveled out from North Carolina. I really didn't expect that! I had only given them 2 months notice. Chris their daughter that is my age also came out but didn't get there in time to come to the reunion. Tom and Doris and most of their kids Chick and Gloria and most of their kids. Dad and mom and most of us. We had nearly 40 people show up. I was really pleased. We got everything done and we were just ready to have dinner when the weather turned to CRAP!The wind blew and it rained. We had taken some eze up canopies with us that a friend had let me borrow. Thank goodness they are the heavier commercial type they aren't quite as likely to blow away in a storm. But! This storm was the exception. We had everyone hanging on for dear life trying to keep these silly things on the ground. Just envision about 20 people hanging onto METAL legs of these canopies in a Lightening storm and the rain is blowing sideways. YIKES!When we finally got a bit of a break we started carrying food into J & C's house and getting the canopies all down so that we could all go inside. About the time that we got the break in the storm my last uncle and his family all showed up. We tried and succeeded in getting about 40 people into the kitchen and living room of a single wide mobile home. It really was alot of fun. The storm really slowed down at about dusk. Alot of the family were not able to stay in teton valley with us so they were saying good bys and getting into cars. We had a beautiful sunset and double rainbows above the Teton Peaks. What an incredible end to a fun day......Needless to say Shane and I decided not to try to sleep in the tent that night. We crammed about 6 of us onto air mattresses and the couch in J & C's house. It continued to rain most of the night.
Mom W was here 8/25/2005 01:01:00 PM