I accompanied my wife and her family to her father's family reunion. Since most of them are from Hawaii, it was held in Las Vegas at the California Club.
We had a great time. Originally it was a family reunion for a group of siblings of one family since they were scattered all over the country. Then they invited cousins, and soon almost all of them came, including my wife's brothers and sisters, and her aunt.
It was a lunch and we took about four hours...for most of them, there were a few that they did not know. We met a few of the cousins in Honolulu a few years ago, and when one of the great uncles passed, my wife and her sister met a lot of them.
My daughter met some cousins who were close to her age. They had shared email, facebook, aim, cell phones, etc.
There were pictures - like when my daughter's grandfather when he was around 5, just before World War II sent him and his family to the Mainland to an internment camp. The other cousins did not, and missed the time to know him since he never traveled back to Hawaii after that.
But now that connections are made and emails exchanged, there will be more opportunities for the family members to re-meet and share experiences.
It was really a short trip for me. After taking some of the kids to the Outlet for some shopping, and since I had to drive back the next day, I went to sleep!
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