Memorial Day week end.

On Memorial Day week end Bud and I traveled to Crofton, Kentucky for the Beachy Reunion.

We stayed in the Super 8 at Cadiz, Kentucky. 

On Saturday a large group of us walked down to the lake.  I simply couldn't resist taking a few photos to show how lovely it was there.

 There were some Amish guys down there fishing.

 I sent Bud a text message, and his reply was,  find me a lot, I'll go get the trailer.

Besides meeting some of my first cousins that I had not seen or spoken to for years, and years.  I was privileged to spend a bit of time with 3 of my brothers and their wives.

Back row left to right Myself, and Bud, Levi and Anna,

Front row left to right Clara and Daniel, Gertie and Edward.

Sitting in the truck the first day we see the tractor and trailer pull up,  and they unloaded their families out of the trailer.

This is where I discovered that my oldest brother Edward and wife Gertie were there.  As the people came out of the building, I was naming them one by one.

ALL of a sudden Bud looked at me and said, "IF YOU SAY SOVILLA AND SHE COMES OUT NEXT --I AM GOING BACK TO THE HOTEL  AND STAYING THERE."

I really laughed.....after all my sister - Sovilla- passed away a number of years ago from cancer.

My cousin Willis's wife Betty was one of the drivers that brought a load down.  It was nice to see her.

I have seen her at different times when she took a load to South Dakota to the Ortman Clinic.  And tho she was not a family member on this side of the family, it was still lovely to see her.

We wanted to get up early and go outside to see if there were any deer here the next morning, But  both mornings that we were there we did not get up early enough to see any.

I had taken my swim suit along, but others declared that the water was much too cold, so I didn't even bother putting it on.

We had a nice room, but guess in the future I must rent or reserve a motel room that doesn't allow pets. The room was clean but it smelled like dog.  I MEAN DOG  BIG TIME!  Needless to say--of course it made me cough even more then normal.

On Sunday we decided to take the scenic route part way and go a different way then from the one we went on Friday.

So we crossed over into the Land Between the Lakes.

This is lovely, but I am glad I wasn't driving or it would have made me dizzy. 

On Monday we traveled to Petersburg to Tom & Cheryl Brockmans for lunch. (Our son-in-law's parents).  Since Kim, Clay and Kenley were there also we got to spend some time with them.

Kenley enjoyed the baby pool that Tom had put up for her.

She loves to be outdoors. But mommy had to keep putting sun block on her fair skin so that she wouldn't get burned.

We also went for a golf cart ride and she really liked that too.

So all in  all we had a WONDERFUL MEMORIAL DAY week end with family and friends!

Thanks Bud for taking me to my reunion and being such a good sport even if 3/4 of the people there were Amish and 1/2  the time you couldn't understand what they were saying.

Even when you and Levi told me in dutch where the tea was and gave the rest of my family laughs because you said it in dutch.  (Levi told him how to say it), and normally it wouldn't come out very plainly when someone who doesn't normally speak dutch, it came out very clearly.