And Miles to Go.....

See below to learn who these women are!***

I drove 698 miles, round trip.

It was worth every minute and every mile and all the costly gasoline! The 50th high school reunion was not the only highlight of the weekend either. A very big highlight was meeting (in alphabetical order) Blonde Goddess, Buzzardbilly, and Evil Twin's Wife, and seeing Inanna again, and introducing her to the others. You've already heard me say how much I love meeting other bloggers - but meeting with these four was a treat! All of them are smart, sassy, funny in the extreme and very bright (not to mention attractive and bosomy!) You'd be doing yourself a favor to check them out, if you haven't already. Keep in mind that their language and subject matter is sometimes R-rated, so if that offends you, don't go. (***Buzzardbilly was not included in the photo, since she prefers to remain anonymous.)

My reunion proved to be a great deal of fun; I saw a woman whom I hadn't seen since graduation. She taught me how to dance the jitterbug in the 8th grade, and I've always been grateful and had such fond memories of her. Why she has never attended a reunion before was a puzzle, since she only lives 12 miles from the old school. She sort of hurt my feelings when I asked her that and she answered that she really had no desire to see anyone again, but she thought it best to attend now. She admitted that she'll probably not attend the 55th, assuming we have one. That makes me sad - for her.

We had a tour of our old school, which was turned into a middle school in the late 1980's. It's cliche to talk about how your old home and school look small in comparison to what you remember about them, but it's true! I had not been back to the school since graduation and the hallways looked very small to me. The current assistant principal opened any classroom we wanted to see, we had brunch in the cafeteria and a memorial service in the auditorium for the 95 classmates who have died since 1958. I was glad I went; the service was gratifying. We had a large class - 447 people. About a third of the remaining classmates came to this reunion, which is a pretty good percentage, I think. Our schools integrated in our junior year, but only two of our African-American students have attended previously, and none were present this time.

On the way I saw two license plates which tickled my fancy:

UP2NOGD

and

JMPN4JOY

It occurred to me that maybe you can be jumpn4joy because you're up2nogd!!