reunion: day 2
Everyone got off to a slow start; in our case it was because of a late night by our standards and everyone waking up at 3.30 a.m., whereas R's friends didn't call it a night until 4...
After breakfast we grabbed some clothes at the campus bookstore (including a hoodie sweatshirt for Leah; it was chilly!) and then joined in the parade of classes -- the attendees were there from classes in five year increments, the first of which was one lady from the class of 1931. I should look so upright and alert at 97!
We skipped a session wherein the gifts of each of the classes were recounted, and instead took the kids to the playground for the nursery school on campus -- by this time it was warm in the sun but there was a cool breeze; it was just about perfect.
R hung out with her friends while Rr napped and I kept L occupied, and then -- eventually -- we met back up with everyone for a class cocktail hour and dinner. That was a bit of a debacle; the food didn't appear until nearly 8 by which time everyone with kids (none older than 6) was tearing their hair out. It's no problem if the child-free attendees want to have a proper meal, and I am at one with the extent to which we were subsidising their drinks bill, but some clearer information about timing would have allowed us to go elsewhere... a long day overall.
After breakfast we grabbed some clothes at the campus bookstore (including a hoodie sweatshirt for Leah; it was chilly!) and then joined in the parade of classes -- the attendees were there from classes in five year increments, the first of which was one lady from the class of 1931. I should look so upright and alert at 97!
We skipped a session wherein the gifts of each of the classes were recounted, and instead took the kids to the playground for the nursery school on campus -- by this time it was warm in the sun but there was a cool breeze; it was just about perfect.
R hung out with her friends while Rr napped and I kept L occupied, and then -- eventually -- we met back up with everyone for a class cocktail hour and dinner. That was a bit of a debacle; the food didn't appear until nearly 8 by which time everyone with kids (none older than 6) was tearing their hair out. It's no problem if the child-free attendees want to have a proper meal, and I am at one with the extent to which we were subsidising their drinks bill, but some clearer information about timing would have allowed us to go elsewhere... a long day overall.
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