Day 400 - The 20th Year Reunion

Whoa. Day 400!? Where did the time go? It's been about 9 months since my last post. I figured I should fix that.  I will update the list, but don't have time to post about everything on it.  I have completed a number of things though, and the 40-by-40 has not escaped my mind.


The most recent item completed was #75 Make every effort to attend my 20 year high school reunion in 2011.  The reunion was this last Saturday, July 9, 2011.

I went to the Friday night gathering at Christy's Place, a local bar and spent the evening with a number of people there.  The main event was Saturday evening at the Countryside Banquet facility in Washington.

The reunion committee (Jen, Brett, Anne, Kara, and a few others) planned a great night.

• 5:45-6:30 cocktail social hour
• 6:30 dinner
• 7:15 door prizes
• 9:45 raffle drawing
• Midnight end of festivities

Dinner was roast beef or chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans, and salad.  During dinner, there was a video put together with a variety of trivia about ourselves that we could submit.  It included a segment of "You know you grew up in the '80's if you remember...." It also included the speech from our 1991 graduation ceremony by Wendy, a classmate who took her own life this last year suffering from PTSD from her time in the military.

I was chosen as a competitor in a game where we had to go into the audience and do and/or get something. The last one back to their seat was forced out each round.  Out of the 11 participants, I made it through about half.

Door prizes... and then FUN awards such as: the longest married, the most recently born baby, the youngest spouse, who changed the least in 20 years, who changed the most, who had the most gray hair, who traveled the furthest, who lived in the most places, etc.  I was granted the person with the most gray hair--and that's pretty accurate.

Fun times!  I'm glad I put this on my list -- it gave me extra encouragement.  I'm glad I went both nights.