Gayle Brown Gurksnis is in town for a week and we got together with her, Nancy Layson Burke, Patty Qualls, and Linda and Terry Gamblin over at Applebee's on the Westside (of course), and had a grand old time. Met Gayles husband Tom Gurksnis for the first time too. They're splitting their time between South Texas and their Class A RV. Turns out she's good friends with Jan Yestingsmeier Clark also in Texas. The net result of all this activity was 5 more condo tickets sold and a CD. Anyway, another example of how a drop of rain turns into a deluge.
Give Linda a little too much time without focussed activity and she starts getting ideas. Pretty soon, it's like Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney (My Dad's got a barn, we could put on a show!). Well the idea is this. Sometime in 2012, preferably not in Hurricane season, we get a bunch of classmates together to go on a cruise. We know of at least a half dozen people who expressed interest already. We also know a travel planner who should be able to get a pretty good rate if we can help fill a block of rooms on a class cruise. Hey, one cruise we went on was full of guys entered into the Big Mustache and Beard society. (I don't know what the real name of the organization is, but one of them turns out to be from Evansville!) so stranger things have happened. Linda's just turning the idea over in her head (which probably means that we're going on a cruise next year, one way or another). Personally, I enjoy the cruise ship experience (especially on the smaller ones) and sharing one with a bunch of Reitz folks sounds like it would be a hoot! Now I know that this isn't everyone's cup of tea, but then again, the idea is to keep generating new and different ways to be together doing something class related and keeping the spirit that we regenerated this Spring as an ongoing experience.
We also always invite everyone to throw their ideas in the pot for other ways the class can get together and do something unusual, different or whatever.
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