WHEW, reunion-palooza is done. Four days of partying and fun and I am toast. It started with a meeting last week to make sure all the "T's" were crossed and the "I's" were dotted. All along Roger had been wanting to have a kind of pre-party at his house WAY out in the country. So we ventured there and it was such fun. He did a BBQ and there were many classmates in attendance. His place is just beautiful. I had never been that far out in my life, or that I remember. That was Thursday night. Then Friday it was pizza night at the hotel and we arrived with many already there. Oh gosh I could hardly sit down at the name tag table that I had to keep jumping up and hugging everyone. We had the worst pizza ever but no one cared, they just had fun visiting, laughing and looking at yearbooks.
Then Saturday was our big event at a convention room in the hotel with heavy appetizers. We had arrived earlier in the day for dressing the room up and it looked great. We also had a DJ, which The Hubby could not understand why we didn't have a dance floor. For one, the room we had was not big enough for a dance floor. Second, we've done that before and all of 4 people danced, not worth the money. All we wanted to do was chat and visit and reminisce the memories of days gone by. We had so many that had never been to a reunion and some who didn't graduate with us, moving or dropping out. That didn't matter one whit, we embraced everyone and had the absolute best time. I'm telling you though I was so tired and my feet so sore I could hardly put one foot in front of the other and my face hurt from smiling, my ears were ringing from all the chatter and music. I actually walked 2,500 steps in that room alone. When I went to bed my toes kept cramping most of the night.
Sunday it was up again and out the door to the brunch at a local bar and grill (not my choice on the committee). We've met there several times but it is a smoking bar and I was not happy about that. But, you know we had about 30 that showed up. They were on their own dime there. I was so dead tired when I left to head home. I/we were supposed to go to Min's 5th birthday party at the Pumpkin Patch but the thought of more noise, kid noise and more walking, I just couldn't do it. She's coming over tomorrow and I will give her birthday present to her then and to Snicklefritz. Their birthdays are a day apart. Snicklefritz's is tomorrow and Min's the next day. They're all coming over for pizza, vegan pizza, salad and I'll put a bow on a cup of Oreo's for them. Min I have a couple of gifts and Snicklefritz I'm taking her shopping in the next few weeks. Anyway, I headed home and sat in my chair, kicked back the foot rest and slept hard for over three hours. I was TOAST! 
Today I spent the morning updating the address list and totaling up the numbers. I wanted to see how many we had and I kept having people asking me. Good Grief! Then I needed to send out a few emails to some classmates to write letters for Roger. His name has been pitched for him to be a Great Graduate (they do this here). I honestly don't know much about his childhood but others do so those I tapped out. I know him more working on this reunion and his older years. I'll write a letter too. We're going to make sure this happens. He is a great guy, who has an absolute passion for these reunions, our fellow classmates that is unmatched.
Okay, I'm out. Still trying to play catchup with my brain and rest.
Oh, and one of my classmates was so in awe of my hair she had to take a picture of it. LOL!
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