Jan.18, 2013

Things sort of got out of hand and I just didn't get back to thinking about the blog.

We left Charleston SC on Monday, Jan . 6th and just took our time to get down to Brunswick, Georgia.   The Golden Isles RV Park was just a nice spot for us to stay for a couple of night.   On Tuesday my cousin and her husband who were in St. Marys Ga. came over and we went to St. Simons Island.   It had been MANY years since we were there, in fact Larry had never been.    We went to Fort Frederica which was built in the 1700's.   After touring the remains of the Fort we went to the Lighthouse.   I wanted to climb it but my knees thought otherwise.  After a great lunch of fresh fried shrimp in the little downtown area  we returned to the campground . Wednesday we traveled on to Bainbridge, Georgia to get ready for the first ever First Cousins Reunion on the Humphrey side of the family, to be held on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013.
We had a wonderful time with 9 of the 17 first cousins present. Of course we did invite our spouses.  We all enjoyed catching up with each others lives and also sharing stories of our childhood at our grandparents house and the stories of our lives now and our families.   We visited the cementery where our  great grandparents, grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles are buried and also the "old home place" of our grandparents.

After a full afternoon of enjoying all the first cousins, three of our third cousins joined us for dinner.   Lots more sharing was done and enjoyed by all.  Everyone wants to do this again next year.

During the weekend we did have a first cousin pass away .   Gordy Pope had been ill for several months and he died on Friday .    Larry and I went to the visitation on Sunday afternoon and then I went to the funeral on Monday with two more of the cousins.   It just goes to show that we don't ever know when we will lose a loved one.

The rest of the week we were just going to rest and relax but that proved to be another plan.   Joanne, my cousin, whose yard we park the RV in got really sick and we had to put her in the hospital. Her grown kids who live next door were out of town so Larry and I had to take over.   We will stay until they get back in town on Monday night, so we had to change some of our plans . 

I will post some pictures of the reunion when I get a better WiFi signal.