Family Reunion

[lizaa]

DO you remember your last family reunion? When was it ? was it fun-did you remember family from way back when -did you meet new members that have joined the family? was it fun to funny ? did you have a picnic barbeque or was it a formal affair ? were there a lot of hugs and kisses going around? NEVER HAD ONE?? how about starting one up?? I t's never too late to connect or reconnect with long lost family..ya know !!

[JamieC]

Family reunions are cool because you get to play catch up with all the family members. I like to listen to the old folks tell their stories about "Back In The Day" I also like that favorite aunt or uncle that shows up and knows more about you then you know yourself but hasn't seen you in over 15 years. Then has the nerve to try and dance after they've had 4 or 5 Pabst Blue Ribbon or Hamms Beers!!

All in all family reunions are a blast.

[naskiecenye]

yeah it had to be like 99 we went to virgina it was cool. we went to bush gardens or kingsdominom or something like that. The hotel was nice. The food was good. There was so many old folks there that i didnt know. none of my younger cousins came that year anyway havent been back since and im not mad. I dont do my family anymore its a long story

[MochaLove37]

Yeah we just had one this past Memorial day. It was nice.It was at a camp ground in New Jersey and they had games for the family good food and swimming, horse back riding, basketball courts the works. I am a distant relative of the rapper Positive K. The one that had that song 'I gotta Man' What's your man got to do with me, I told ya I'm not tryin to hear that see. For anyone that remembers from back in the day. Anyways it was nice to finally meet his dad and mom. I've heard so much about him growing up. I still haven't met my cousin yet he didn't attend the reunion but he lives next door in NY so hopefully I will. it was nice to be around my family. We are close nit and all get togethers with us are memorable.

[HoOdPrInCe]

We have two reunions on my dad's side. One of the reunions...u gotta pay bookoo money and then when u think u are finished payin, they come up with something else and sometimes they trip if u dont pay and then come and get something to eat...oh no! I havent been to that one since like 99-2000??? But when they have it in my town...Imma go and prolly PROLLY pay the money...!

But, I just went to one of them on my dad's side this past fathers day weekend...We went to Virginia Beach and Norfolk. We had a dinner that Friday, Chilled and went to the beach during the day and had a cookout then went to the beach on Saturday night, and had breakfast and went shoppin Sunday. It was nice. I love goin...but i hate alllllllllllllllllll the questions just from ONE person...now questions here and there from different people is aiight...!

and on my mama's side, we have it in September in SC. Thats where we get ghetto...Kci and JoJo is dissssstant cousins on that side....they havent been in a LONG time...since Kci was goin with Mary...thats been like in the late 80's! But we just had one Last Sept.

[Tinkertoy]

We had a family reunion in 2000 in Williamsburg VA. I did most of the planning and it was really fun. I had the hotel cater a buffet dinner on day and we had a picnic another. I even found a local DJ who spun some great tunes for a dance. Folks enjoyed the amusement park as well as Old Williamsburg.

I met some relatives that I didn't even know I had and some others that I had never seen. It was great to have that one when we did because since then two of my mom's sisters who were there have died and some of the other older folks cannot travel for a reunion any more. They are in their 80's, which is a blessing and in pretty good health, but cannot endure long car or plane trips, or fly/travel alone..

One of the hardest part of getting the reunion together was getting folks to respond to letters asking if they wanted/planned to attend.

[Chelbe]

Our last family reunion was back in 89'. A looooooong time ago. I was only 10 and I enjoyed it. We all went up to Alabama because that is where it all originated. We played alot of games, ate alot of food, I meet alot of relatives and had alot of fun.

The house is on a farm. My grandfather built the house for him and his family back when... when ... back in the late 40's or early 50's so each brick it took to build that house was laid by him. That house still stands and will be in the family forever. There is alot of land around there so we had as much room as we needed to play kickball, volleyball.. yes I said volleyball, and to just run free. The older kids were racing 4 wheelers and motorcycles while the youngsters did the activites I listed prior. There were cows, horses and bulls in the back which were a sight to see. Especially for a little city girl like me.

Even while the reunion was fun, so was the trip to get there and back. Being that most of the family moved to down here to Florida, it took us all about 16 hours to drive up to Alabama. We had 2 vans full of people and it just felt good to be surrounded by so much family. Listening to "old folk" music.. thats what us youngsters would call it. We also called it torture, but it still was a lot of fun.

Anyway, alot of people have passed on since then so I keep these memories close to me. That was our last "real" family reunion.

[goodcookinmama]

its been along time since we had a reunion but the last time it was fun fun we had fishing tourment for all ages we had singing dancing and so much food that it was a shame every one put in some thing thats what is all about ohh yea we had contest for the oldest to the youngestthe youngest was letssee i think about 2mo old and the oldest was 98 we had a ball it lasted all day and thoes that came fromfar away stayed eith me and some other family members we did not send any one to a motel we sat up all night getting to know some of the family that we have ent see before aand it was really nice now we have other places to go now and we keep in touch more often now cause we are getting to be the young middle age family members now and our kids aer the younger adultsi cant wait to until the next one