We just returned from re-creating our wedding day. We attended the Oakland Temple. We then ate at the same restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf and went to the wax museum, just like forty years ago.In 1968 we went to Haight-Ashbury to look around, but this time our youngest son told us to
"steer clear of there". The next activity was a drive down the coast highway to San Simeon. It's a beautiful Drive, however, when you are used to traveling at 70 MPH it is hard not to go over 35 MPH! It makes for a long drive. I don't think we will do it again.
We drove back using the interior freeway and flew home. Andy stayed with Zac's family in St. George while we were gone.
I then went to St. George and tended Zac's girls while they went to Egypt, Israel, Turkey, and Greece. Andy and I went to Zac's for nine days, then brought them back to Bountiful. The girls spent the next nine days with various cousins. They had a good time but were very glad to see their parents again.
Next, we had a family reunion with my side of the family. I am the oldest of three children that has now blossomed to fifty plus. We had a photographer and the whole works. It was so fun to be with family. My mother is eighty one and said with tears in her eyes, "That picture will really be something." That one comment made all the hassle worth it.
Sarah and her family from Washington, as well as Zac's family came to the reunion. They haven't been able to attend for several years. It was great to have all of them there. Family is where it's at!!
