Family Reunion with Hua'kai Annie

On Friday Hubby and I packed up to go to George, WA to his Mom's place for a family reunion.  It was our maiden voyage with the '57 Aloha.  It ended up taking a long time to get out of town.  We decided to put new tires on Annie.  Then of course, traffic was terrible because of Seafair and Watershed.  Sam and Angela picked up Danny and drove over earlier. 

 We had a small window when our whole family was there.  Sam and Angela left Saturday morning to attend a wedding and Kassie left a bit later to attend another wedding.

The boys had a pic with Aunt Laura because every time they see her that is what we do.

 We went to Jake's for tacos at lunch time and then I played Mafia with this group.  There was a lot of lying and killing and some saving and investigating for this game.  A lot of laughing too!

 Tom was in charge of grilling this year for Saturday night.  Oh my, this is a fantastic meal!

 The kids love reunion because there is a bouncy house, a swimming pool, and a soft ice cream machine. 

 The aunts and uncles started this family reunion many years ago,  It was different this year without Hubby's dad, Court and without Aunt Joyce.  They were missed but both would have loved that the tradition is continuing.

On Sunday morning it's a fat boy breakfast.  There are trailers and tents everywhere on the yard,  Pretty soon things get going because no one can sleep through the sausage and bacon cooking.  Scrambled eggs, fresh fruit and pancakes too.

Kassie picked fresh blueberries for the pancakes.

 The kids love Max and he spends time with them.  On Saturday, Sam took kids swimming in the morning and then Danny and Max took them in the afternoon.  They swim in the canal.

After breakfast on Sunday the kids finish working on their bottle rockets.  A compressor is used to shoot them off into the field.

 Michele came with seven of her eight kids, her husband was working,

She is a brave, sweet Mom.

 It was our first trip with Hua'kai Annie.  She isn't quite finished but was road ready.  It was so great to have her there.  Remember, she came from this corral area on the farm.  Now she is spiffed up and looking a lot different.

 It was 102 during the afternoon but she had afternoon shade.  We have a fan and it was comfortable by bed time.

John and Carla Fischer came to tour Annie.  John's parents owned Annie and he had slept in the canvas bunk as a boy.  It was an emotional reunion.  Unfortunately, the person that took pictures of John and Carla didn't actually push the button so I don't have pictures.  

I am so bummed about that.

Danny rode home with us and we decided to take the scenic route.

We had a good trip home, stopped at the Red Horse Diner in Ellensburg and in Thorpe for peaches.

It was a fun family reunion, we had our guys together for 12 hours and Hua'kai Annie's first trip was successful.  A win, win, win, for sure.