Theme Ideas????

Anyone have any really great theme ideas for the reunion??? Also, don't forget to vote for number of days at the side!!!

Monthly Update

Hello all! It seems that everyone is excited for the reunion and there is a lot of consensus that we would like to stay at the same place if possible. However I realize that money is tight for most, including myself, so unless I find some really great package deal, we will probably just stay at a hotel close to Aunt T's house and plan some really fun activities in the area.

I also wanted to put this little blip from Aunt M.

"Just as an item for clarity - I am unfortunately not going to be able to help with travel and accommodation expenses this time around; I hope to be able to get myself there but others will need to start planning their own financial arrangements if they'd like to participate."

I'm sure we all agree that this is only reasonable since she was sooooo generous the last go around! So everyone start squirreling away some pennies and work some extra jobs. It will be worth it.....I promise!

All my Love,

Cousin S

Welcome!

Welcome to the Gelder Family Reunion Blog! It was sort of unofficially decided that we would have the family reunion every three years....and guess what, next year is the year! Can you believe it?!! So I've already had a chat with Aunt Theresa and it is a go for her place in 2011.

I would like to hear people sound off their ideas as far as where to stay and what to do. Aunt Theresa suggested doing some things at the Redwoods, or we talked about Yosemite before.

We do have a little decision to make right off the bat. By default we will just plan on mostly free or inexpensive activities and let everyone make their own lodging arrangements. However, if everyone wanted we could look into renting some condos or a house or something. I bring this up because we would have to start making reservations soon for next year. Do we want to pool resources and get lodging together...or should we let everyone arrange their own accomadations?

Please comment and tell me how you envision our 2011 reunion. And keep your eye on this blog because we will be doing voting (see right side) and planning here. I can't wait!