What a Reunion!

On Sunday, September 10th, we had our reunion meeting in Petaluma. Joey, Shaylin's mom set it all up, although she said that actually her husband, Barrett, did the work. I thank both of them...it was wonderful!



We all started arriving at 3 p.m. Kodiak Jacks was closed and only open for our reunion. In the beginning, most people just caught up on what had been going on and hung out with each other. Pool tables were available, but those didn't get a lot of use until after dinner. There was also the bull, but it wasn't turned on. Kyle and Michelle tried to make it work.
















We had a fair number of parents who joined our reunion. For many of them, they could finally put a face to some of the names they had been hearing about. Here's some of our parents who came.











We had a great dinner of two different pastas, salad, and bread. Plus, at the top of this post you can see the cake made for us. Besides the cake, there were some delicious chocolate chip cookies! After most everyone had eaten, the pool tables became more active! I'm not sure if we had a champion pool player, but it looked like everyone was definitely having a good time.



So we had a fun conclusion to an incredible summer. There was talk of getting the group together on a regular basis...bi-annual reunions? That would be fun! There was talk of going to Australia this next summer with People to People...that would be awesome! I know many of the delegates probably developed some friends that will be lifelong. This experience, hopefully, enriched everyone's life. It did mine.

Here are some more photos I took that night...

The Reunion Post is Coming....

Hopefully tomorrow the post on the reunion meeting will be posted. I know I told some of you it would be here in a couple of days. Check back soon!

We sure missed all of you who weren't able to make it. Maybe we'll have another reunion sometime...in the meantime...THINK AUSTRALIA. The Information meeting will be September 28th - Thursday - at 7:30 p.m. at Elsie Allen High School in Santa Rosa.

REUNION Meeting

Just to let you all know, the Reunion meeting has not been forgotten. I think it's about to be finalized...and I will let you know AS SOON AS I KNOW. It's looking like it will be September 10th...

more information to follow!

Day 20...Going home

It was an early morning. Our plane was due to take off at 8:30 a.m. I took a last look at Malta out the balcony of our hotel room.

We loaded up, went to the airport, and checked in. We didn't have a lot of time to spare...a few last postcards...another cappucino...not much else. We said our goodbyes to Karina and headed through check in. It would be a long day, but I think most everyone was ready to go home.

Our first flight was from Malta to London. Air Malta is the airline we flew on and it was VERY nice...leather seats with plenty of leg room and great coffee! In London, we had to go through customs, which took a LONG time. We had a 3 1/2 hour layover but after it was all said and done, we only had 35 minutes of free time before we boarded the next plane.

The next flight was close to 11 hours. This went from London to Dallas. Again we had to go through customs...again we had an hour and a half layover and there was absolutely NO time to spare.


From Dallas, it was 3 1/2 hours to SFO. What a greeting we had at the airport...lots of happy parents, friends...and delegates.

We were home, in our own beds, dreaming of a wonderful 3 weeks in Europe...at the end of Day 20!