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September 20, 2006

High School Reunion

Do you remember when you were in high school? It seemed that only "old" people had high school reunions... it still seems like just yesterday, I was walking the halls of Arrowhead High School.


Well, that was 10 years ago now... and we just had our first high school reunion.


Fortunately, it was a very enjoyable experience. Since I was fortunate enough to be chosen as one of our class officers back in the formative high school days (and since no one else stepped forward), I got to plan it. That worked out very well, because I could time it to coincide with our move from Guam to Germany.


So, here is a selection of pictures from that night.


Here are all the classmates who attended. As you can see, it wasn't a big group, but I think most everyone who attended enjoyed it.


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Looks like Andy's not quite sure about things.


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As people arrived that night, we gave them a questionnaire to fill out. Among other things it asked them what they've been doing since high school, what memorable things they did in high school, or what they would like to forget. So, we sorted through those over dinner, and after, decided to bring some people up to tell the more interesting stories.


As you can see here, Katie decided to show off her karaoke skills.


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Of course, since she was singing "Baby Got Back," there were a number of girls who got up and joined her.


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There were also people like Kelli who got up and were good sports about embarrassing memories.


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Brad recounted how he and his friends decided to dress like a pimp, but when the day came, he was the only one who followed through with it. Poor Brad, but looks like he turned out ok. :-)


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Here is a small selection of some of the people who came. I took many more, but unfortunately, not all of them turned out as well as I would have liked. If you were there and don't see your picture, send me a message and I will send you yours (if I have it).


This is Eric, Brianna, Shannon, and Cathy (I don't think Eric was supposed to be in this picture).


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Amy and Cathy:


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Frank and his girlfriend:

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Casey and Gretchen:


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Mike and Becky:


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Brianna and Shannon, I hope you don't mind I posted this picture. It's such a cute picture, I couldn't resist. :-)


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Here is Eric and Rebecca, the newly weds. Eric is a good friend from high school (obviously) that I've kept in contact with. He and Rebecca just got married two weeks before. Anna and I were very sorry to miss the celebration, but got to congratulate them when we got home.


Aren't they sweet??


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The girls outside: Anna, LeeAnn, Amy and Melissa.


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Mike and Cathy.


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Everyone decided to play a team game called tip-cup. I captured this picture as the cup was flipped over, which as the name implies is the point of the game. :-)


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We had all four years of yearbooks at the reunion, so it was fun to look back through them and reminisce.


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Here's Eric reflecting back on the good ol' days.


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Yes, I know I have entirely too many pictures of Anna in this post, but she looked so beautiful, I couldn't resist. :-)


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So, that concluded the dinner part of the reunion. However, since some people didn't want to go to a semi-formal dinner, we also had a BBQ on Sunday afternoon. So, here we are at Nagawaukee Park.


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We brought the yearbooks out again.


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It was a frigid 65 degrees and Anna and I had to bundle up to stay warm. Oh, how things change! We used to go out in a tee shirt when it was that warm!


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We were really glad to see our good friends John and Jenni (with daughters Brooke and Julia) come out to the BBQ. They couldn't make it to the dinner, so we enjoyed hanging out with them. Since I had to leave to come down to Montgomery, Alabama, it also allowed me to say goodbye to them.


John is on the left in this picture.


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Here is Jenni with Julia.


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Unfortunately, that also concluded my brief stay at home. I took off a few hours later to come down to Alabama. I am here for a 5-week course, and Anna stayed back in Wisconsin to have a little longer with our friends and family. Since it's a school, I haven't been on many adventures, so my posts have been a bit lacking. However, if there's something worthy of a post, you can rest assured that I will post it!


So, until the adventure...


--Jim

Posted by jim at September 20, 2006 12:55 PM

Comments

Jim,

I like the reunion pics and, yes, Anna was beautiful (as usual) that night. You are a good man for always saying so. You both are lucky to have one another, but I think you knew that already, didn't ya!

Take care and until the next adventure, my hugs and plenty missing's to you both.

Tricia

Posted by: Tricia at September 21, 2006 01:51 PM

Jim, as far as I am concerned, you can put as many pictures of my lovely daughter on your website as you like!
Love, Mom

Posted by: Chris at October 2, 2006 12:21 PM

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