Reunion was a great success

The family reunion was a great success. It ran from noon on Saturday August 9th to noon on Wednesday August 13th. We flew Houston to Billings via Denver on Frontier airlines, got into Billings at 7pm on the 9th and got to the camp about 8:30 after a 5-minute stop at our motel.

Frontier airlines is the one that Southwest spoofs on their commercials. Fees for everything. We had two flights each around two hours. They wanted $3 for a "snack" (bag of chips type snack, nothing substantial). Each seatback had a nice video display. You could watch it run ads for free. Or watch TV for $6. I ran the brightness control down until it dimmed out of view. Soft drinks were still free. But a bottle of water sold for $2.

Anyway. The reunion was a good time. I hadn't seen my mother since Aryn got married in April 2005. And hadn't seen my brother Jerry or his wife in probably 5 years. They all came to the reunion two years ago but we had just moved so skipped that one. I think we were still rebuilding the kitchen or had just finished it.

We had Mom's one surviving sibling, Uncle Ben with his wife. There were several cousins from my generation. A good number from my daughter's generation, and a gaggle of young kids who are my cousins grandkids. Folks from Alaska, Washington, Minnesota, Texas, California, and Montana. I think that's all the states represented. There was way too much food and I attempted to eat all of it.

I think it's been close to 20 years since I've been in the Montana Rockies. Beautiful country!