Awesome!

Are you sitting down??!! the Dad's 50th class reunion was a BLAST!!! We both had a great time. Those people were so very friendly and nice--even to us "strangers." Granted, the program was awfully long and a bit boring but those doing it had so much fun! All the 100, more or less, won "door prizes" and the drawing and comments on everything lasted forever--well, around 2 1/2 hours or more. There were several very interesting people there and I had fun too.

The neatest thing was how genuinely happy they all were to see The Dad. He was thrilled. I was too! Almost no one recognized him after 50 years, for good reason, but I heard many whispers of, "It's Larry Vinson!" "No, really?" And people were standing in line to talk to him! He behaved nicely almost all the time and, would you believe:, we were the LAST(!!) to leave because he was talking to everyone. I finally got to meet the legendary Terry Thayer, and Sarah Carson who were Dad's brilliant companions all through school. Terry had only one job all his life after college: he graduated from IU and became a professor where he stayed all his life! I am impressed. He told me an interesting tale from The Dad that I had never heard: in school, he was publicly proclaimed the most intelligent kid in Southern Indiana. I was impressed!

So, in spite of the looooooooong program, it was much fun and I would do it again any time we are invited. Now, if the picture downloads, we should be done. I'll add things about our lovely Lakeside vacation as soon as I get some pictures on the couputer. Well, dang!! As usual, the picture hasn't done its thing in a few tries and about an hour so I think it isn't going to. I will try again another time! Have a great day! Today (Mon.) it cooperated!