July 15, 2006

GenFest is here at last! Odette and Jana were the two who couldn't make it this year, and they were missed all day long. We had Tom, Laurie, Chip and Dylan, Sharon, John, Derek, Kevin and Amy, Barb, Jim, Melissa, Peter, Autumn, Brooke, Adam, Melanie, Lydia, Shelly and Chris, Doug, Dave, Beth, Lauren, Sue, John, Kris, Molly, Roger, Megan, Fay, and Jackson, Dick and Nan for a total of 34.

The dining room table was groaning from all of the delicious dishes. John and Adam were the intrepid cooks laboring over hot grills in 95 degree heat. We couldn't have done it without them.. Thank you John and Adam!











The food was delicious as usual, and I think everybody got what they wanted, even Lauren, who didn't want grill marks on her hot dog!

My favorite picture of the day was the father/daughter Lichtenberg picture of John and Kris.

The coolest spot in the afternoon turned out to be the umbrella table because of the breeze and the shade from the umbrellas. It started out to be a hen party, but then others joined us to enjoy the coolness.

We didn't get any pictures of all of the activities. Tubing and canoeing were popular because of the heat. The river temperature is always refreshing to say the least! The trebuchet was a lot of fun - we lofted quite a few water balloons and it worked perfectly. The activity soon turned into a water balloon fight though, which was really quite predictable! Nobody enjoyed it more than Dylan.

Volley ball was great fun - people played until the game was called on account of darkness. The volley ball observers gallery was fun, too. The kids had fun playing with the old fireplace and the spring water - they pretended they were cooking. That bodes well for future reunions, don't you think?

I didn't go to the campfire, but I hear that there was one and that it was good, and some people went home to put the kids to bed and then came back! That means it had to be good!

So another memorable GenFest is over. I think I'll remember this one especially because of the heat. It has to be the warmest on record (if we had records).