Watch out, Seattle, here we come!

That’s right, you read it correctly.  Erik talked to me via Facebook about putting together a reunion.  Naturally, I was wondering what he had in mind but it turns out, he had a pretty good grip on things and had some pretty good ideas on how to put this thing together.  I think all we have left to do is to come up with dates and a venue (probably a park somewhere?).

I put together a list of people out there and, off the top of my head, this is what I came up with (in no real particular order except to say that I THINK I have the 7 kids in the right order):

June, Ross, Darren, Michael, Ian and Natalie
Chris, Marlys, Troy and Cheryl
Charlie, Cathy and Christy
Margie, Pat, Aaron and Amber
Janie, Ed, Erik, Heather and Dori
Bob, Ali, Bobby, Chris and Grace
Lori, Alan, Tara and Bryan

Two things.  Sorry Alan if I misspelled your name.  There are about 37 ways to spell it.    Secondly, these are “us plus kids” meaning that I could guess my way through everyone’s kids’ names but I wouldn’t be 100% positive.  Some I know, some I don’t.  What a perfect opportunity to meet all of the little ankle biters, no?  

What have Erik and I come up with besides a list of relatives?  We’ve got a state!  We’ve got a month!  We need your help in deciding the rest!

How does the Seattle area in July sound?  We figured Seattle because it’s pretty central for everyone and the most realistic destination.  As much as we’d love to do this in Kodiak, Seattle makes way more sense.  We’ll figure out WHERE in Seattle at a later time (open to suggestions!!).  I’m thinking the weekend of the 10th and 11th (to throw a suggestion out there).  I don’t know much about Magnuson Park but hey, what the heck?

So that’s what I’ve got.  I’ll be getting with as many of you individually as I possibly can whether it be via email, Facebook or telephone.  Please use the “Comments” to post whether you can or can’t make it.  Once we’ve got something hammered out, we can do something more in the way of a formal announcement / invite type of a thing.