Fun filled July

I will be on the train to NYC bright and early tomorrow to join Jennifer and Alex and the boys.

(Alex is moving back to London at the end of the month).

Tom and I picked up Jenn from the airport Wednesday night.

 Thursday Tom took Jennifer to the train as I drove past the train station to Princeton to have lunch with Gee Gee, Linda, and some other class of '67 friends.

After lunch, I took the train to NYC and then a taxi drive to Alex's apt. and visited with Jenn and Nathan and then Jenn and I went to see Fiddler of the Roof at the Broadway theater and then I took the train home.

Friday morning I helped SHIP clients at the Office on Aging for four hours and that night assisted as the Eastampton Rec Committee hosted our July Movie in the Park.

Oh, and, backtracking a bit.....We had fun at this year's Jamboree in the Hills, too (our 17th honeymoon! :-)

Only in America

I love Larry Turner's photo of Doug Brewin and him performing as Brooks and Dunn as posted on Facebook July 3, 2016

Brroks and Dunn by Turner and Brewin-Happy Fourth of July!

Happy Fourth of July to all our friends from sea to shining sea!

Lost in Piscataway....

I was so close to the Olive Garden in Piscataway at 12:05....but my GPS and skewed sense of direction had me driving in circles for over half an hour.

Maybe providence had a hand in that, though, because as I got out of my car I bumped into Class of '67 John Kapp, who had seen my notice about the lunch and stopped by to see if he saw anyone he knew heading in! :-)

So he joined me, and Gee Gee, Gemma, Ruth, Erna, and Tracy for a fun lunch.

This has been quite an eating time of year. Lunch with classmates, DEAR group, and coming up....Sandy, Conni....Kathryn.....Carol Brown.....Linda....whoo hoo!

Movie time too. Thursday we saw Now You See Me 2 (which, imo, was better than the first one, which I watched on tv a few days before), Me Before You, Warcraft, and Central Intelligence.

Britain is leaving the EU. The stock market tanked. Poor Alex and everybody....

Can't wait to see Jennifer in July! Whoo hoo!

Tom's surgery went well and he is doing great. (torn meniscus)

Gimmick photo from the CMA Music Fest

This photo of me waving in front of the Lyft screen is courtesy of Lyft, the Uber type service:

click the Roberta says hi link

Oh, and here, too, is another bit from the CMA Fest. It's a video of me saying the Contact folks are my idea of humble and kind and Tim McGraw talks first.

My Humble and Kind video clip

Father's Day

I tried to collect as many photos of notable fathers in my current life I could find in a quick pass through oh so many photos I have on my computer.
Happy Father's Day to them, and to all the deserving fathers out there!

Another milestone

Yesterday (June 17th) was the fiftieth anniversary of my mother's death. So sad.

Today was the last day of the 2015-2016 school year. They had the retirement luncheon on Wednesday, the 15th. It's the first one I've missed, but Tom's surgery was scheduled and he needed me around for 24 hours. No one took pictures. :-(

We had a lot of fun at the CMA Music Fest in Nashville this year, even though poor Tom's aching knee curtailed some of our usual activities about town (his more than mine).

Post reunion feedback is all positive

It's a week later and we are still getting e-mail from thankful reunion attendees gushing with compliments about the fun they had. I am so happy everything worked out: it was so great seeing everyone! Friday night, the Saturday high school tour, and Saturday night....everything was perfect...and gave us time to mingle and get reacquainted.

Posting at the high school entrance

Me in the library

Erna Fusco Pharaon and Eric Haines

Gee Gee Otto and Bobby Rankin

Map of where everyone is now

Gee Gee and Cathy Otto

JoAnn Craig, Diane Cremone Febinger, Adele DeMuro Ryan

Sandy Gornick Mockus, Steve Mockus, Steve Hornak,, and me

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Me, Janet Karnell Beedenbender, Barbara Jahr, Chris Karnell, Russ Balliet

The whole photo collection is here: http://fiftyish.shutterfly.com