Summer is nearing an end. We had two quite eventful, family reunions, and we are approaching a hiking trip this weekend and a trip to Bend next weekend. That pretty much sums up our summer. They fly by it seems. Our first reunion was at Bear Lake with Paul‘s extended family the Rallison‘s. The Rallison‘s have been doing reunions for 40 years as a tradition. They are pros at reunions. There were over 100 people in one location celebrating together. Five day event consisted of a day activity every day, afternoon, crafts and cooking and an evening dinner and program each day. We did fun things like; a hot wings challenge, minute-to-win-it games, weaving a tapestry, making jewelry, skits, family stories, slide shows, birdwatching, hikes, and late night games, pool time, pickle ball, campfires, talking and hot tubbing. Uncle Ben came up with something called Rallison bucks and printed fake money to give out to all of the adults which was to be distributed throughout the week to the children for interacting, helping, being present, and any other thing that could be rewarded. The cash could be used to buy gifts at the Rallison store each morning. The kids loved this and worked hard to get Rallison cash. With over 100 high functioning, confident, capable people contributing and participating, the event was pretty amazing.
I really enjoyed getting to know some of Paul’s, very talented, cousins and talking to his aunts and uncles. He has a cousin who is a Buddhist, who I enjoyed talking to. Another cousin is a seamstress and makes her own patterns is a pretty phenomenal designer and graphic artist. James Rallison is the writer of “the odd ones out”. My kids are a huge fan of his work. I loved talking to Gaylynn Ribeira, who is creating a museum quality, art, show exhibition about technology, and how it effects our lives these days. Her work is really incredible and I was really inspired listening to her talk about what it means to her.
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