Tim B, Janice, Brian, Lisa, Diane, Dave, Don, Ann, Raelene, Charlie, Susan

After a breakfast of pecan pancakes & bacon, 

 I spent all day Sunday (9/27) quilting Pat C’s quilt.  Michael watched golf in the afternoon and had a rehearsal in the evening.   

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I thought I’d bring you up-to-date on the first part of our vacation:

We were up at o'dark hundred Friday morning (9/18) to make our flights.  We landed at 10:30 AM in Connecticut and picked up our rental car and took off for a brief nostalgia tour.  We drove to Windsor and saw the first house I ever bought.  Boy has the neighborhood changed!!  Then we headed to West Harford and to Michael's first house.  He could not get over how tall the trees had grown.  He remembered planting them with his uncle when they were only about 6 feet tall....now they are giants!  We finally made it to Canton to have lunch with Tim B., one of Michael's old teaching buddies.   

 When we reached our hotel around 3 PM, we promptly took a nap...we were both beat.  We got up around 5 and got cleaned up and headed out to the pizza party for the reunion.  It was very nice.  I practiced my small talk all night while Michael reconnected with his high school buddies.  This is the first reunion he has ever attended, as was the case for several other people.

Saturday morning (9/19) Michel was up early to go golfing with an old buddy from his neighborhood while Janice picked me up and we headed out.   

 We spent hours in BEST BUY with the upshot being that I had to buy a new tablet :~(.  But at least we got to talk almost the entire time we were there.  We were both starving and headed off to REIN’s for ruebens (the best!!!) and then Quilting By The Yard.  After that we headed back to the hotel to talk for another couple of hours.  Janice finally headed for home and Michael and I headed for the more formal dinner…a buffet right at the hotel.  Michael got in lots more bonding with his best high school buds...

Michael & Dominick A

Michael & Ron D

Russel D & Michael

I think he had a really good time and was glad that he went.

Sunday morning (9/20) we met up with a bunch of our other friends for breakfast.  We had a mix of friends, relatives and former students at the breakfast.   

Brian & Lisa...former students

Diane & Dave...cousins

Don, Ann & Raelene...friends

Charlie & Susan (sis and brother-in-law)

After that, we hit a local farm stand for corn, and headed out on the 5 hour drive to Ithaca.

I just had to post one more picture....Don (above) is the friend who married us, and on FACEBOOK he put up a picture last week for throw-back Thursday....I LOVE it:

guess the rice was coming in hard and fast :-)