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Post by Tara on Jun 18, 2005 6:10:30 GMT -5
Have you ever had one and if so, what was it like? Was there anyone that really stuck out to you? The "unforgettable"?
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Post by dianaholberg on Jun 18, 2005 10:31:07 GMT -5
It's funny you should mention this, because every time I see the Amish thread I want to post about one family reunion I went to when I was about 14.
Apparently, on my mother's side we are related to some Dunkards. They are similar to the Amish but less restricted. They drive cars, but they are all those old black antiques (not Model-Ts, but the ones that came right after those). The men wear black pants and white shirts with hats. The women wear long house dresses in solid pastels, though they are also permitted to wear very small floral prints -- and they wear those bonnets kind of like the Amish. (Of course, being 14 and rebellious in spirit, I wore my brightest multi-colored skirt and a hot pink top... )
The reunion was a pig roast. Big gross pig on a spit over a fire... another fire with a cauldron of stew. And fresh vegetables.
It was delicious, though ;D
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Post by PhantomsPandora on Jun 18, 2005 13:35:52 GMT -5
LOl weeelll, I've been to several, on all sides of my family. I'd say the most unforgettable would be my great uncle floyd. Floyd hardly bathes and does not use deodarant. So though he's huggy, I really don't want to be hugged, lest I get in a green cloud that stays around his body and I suffocate.
I guess his wife got him to bathe the day of the reunion, but he hugged me on one arm and my brother on the other. We both were about to die lol.
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Post by littlepea on Jun 21, 2005 19:54:57 GMT -5
my family reunions are weird. my mum is the oldest of her siblings so all her family are younger than me but my dad was the youngest of 4 and all his family are older than me except for my second cousins (children of my cousin). they always laughed and called me "wee eddie", it was pretty cool my mum's family are all over the world (one uncle in bangladesh - his wife works for the US government by the way - and the other lives in england with his wife and her children from a previous marriage). we hardly see them and i don't think we've ever had a proper reuinion with everyone there. my dad's family are all relatively local and we always get together at christmas or new year at my gran's house, except she's getting a bit old and frail these days so we might not be doing that so often. i went through a rebellious stage during school and i used to hate going to the reunions with my dad's family just cos i had nothing in common with any of them and had nothing to talk about. i was pretty anti-social myself, however, so it wasn't all their fault it still sucked though. they still look at me in a funny way as well, it still kinda sucks ...
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Post by ophelia97 on Jun 22, 2005 22:56:03 GMT -5
Family reunions...we have them every Thanksgiving and then again on Christmas; sometimes on Easter. Nothing really stands out to me about them, except everyone usually brings way too much food for us all to eat and I end up with leftovers of stuff I don't really like in the first place. And everybody makes fun of me on Thanksgiving b/c I don't eat turkey. ;D
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Post by Tara on Jun 23, 2005 6:47:18 GMT -5
Well, they can make fun of me as well. I think I ate turkey once on Thanksgiving in like... the past eight years. lol
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Post by littlepea on Jun 25, 2005 19:14:54 GMT -5
i have a wedding coming up where i'll meet all my relatives again. it's my cousin getting married and we're all invited, but my brother isn't bothering to come up from england which i think is a bit sad. we don't know our cousin very well but still, he's a member of the family ... anyway, i'm quite looking forward to it cos i'll get to wear my kilt for a proper occaision. so far i've only worn it to important football matches for a laugh but this should be fun i also have a plan which i'm stealing from one of my mates. he said that he was at a wedding a few weeks ago and he was the only one who was carrying around cigars so everyone thought he was really cool ... i think i might give that a shot myself, see if it proves a useful ice-breaker with any of the hot bridesmaids
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Post by Tara on Jun 26, 2005 16:22:47 GMT -5
Believe it or not, many women like a man in a kilt. They just don't tell you. lol
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Post by dianaholberg on Jun 26, 2005 18:44:16 GMT -5
I'll tell you... my boyfriend is a bagpiper and wears his kilt at every event ;D
But if he weren't playing the bagpipes, it might be different lol
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Post by littlepea on Jun 29, 2005 18:50:30 GMT -5
good stuff ;D there aren't many bagpipers in scotland but there's a new thing to try and promote the bagpipes in schools and stuff. i never got the chance unfortunately. i've heard that women like men in kilts before (some have even told me i look dead sexy in a kilt ) but my dad's told me to keep a low profile at this wedding because the other family are from a rough part of town and some have been in prison a couple of times (so they might be a bit unfriendly) and also there's the fact that the bride has a child from a previous marriage and another one from the groom (NB. they had a kid before they got married) and the other family is catholic while mine is protestant so there could be some problems (this on its own can be quite serious, especially in the west coast of scotland, just like in ireland). i'm still optomistic, though, it's meant to be a celebration after all (and i'm still going to wear my kilt )
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Post by dianaholberg on Jun 29, 2005 20:54:53 GMT -5
You'll have to let us know how it goes
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Post by Tara on Jun 30, 2005 5:53:09 GMT -5
Sounds like an interesting scenario.
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Post by littlepea on Jul 2, 2005 18:01:23 GMT -5
the wedding was today and it went pretty smoothly, really. i think my dad got a bit confused - the conflict wasn't because of the differences between our families, it was because the bride's father died a while ago and her mum is with a new guy now but the bride doesn't like him and didn't invite him to the wedding (the bride's borther "gave her away" and gave a speech at the meal in place of her father). he was going to turn up to the reception after the meal and speeches but me and my parents left before that. it wasn't a very big wedding, there were only 60 people there and most of them were people we didn't know. i was afraid that i'd be the only one in a kilt cos my dad said that i'm the only one in the family that likes wearing kilts, but when we turned up all the men were wearing kilts and it was my dad and his brother (my uncle) who were the odd ones out in their suits (haha!). the minister was pretty funny. it was a protestant church (the Church of Scotland) and the minister made an effort to tell some jokes and stuff and get everyone settled down. i was laughing through the hymns because they sounded so silly through the organ (they were "give me joy in my heart" and "all things bright and beautiful"), i dunno why after the ceremony we went to the reception to have the meal and hear the speeches. the speeches came before the meal which is apparently unusual and they weren't exactly classics but no-one really minded. they gave us steak for the main course too ;D we left after that, though, because my parents weren't really interested in staying for the booze-up and neither was i really. i would have if my brother was there with me and there were people my age to talk to but everyone was either much older or much younger. anyway, it was flawless really, i dunno what all the fuss was about
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Post by ophelia97 on Jul 2, 2005 23:01:38 GMT -5
It's good to know things went well.
My family had a party yesterday, although I wouldn't call it a reunion b/c the entire family didn't go. This time, the food was cake, and they made jokes about how I scrape the icing off and eat that but leave the cake.
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Post by Tara on Jul 3, 2005 14:31:47 GMT -5
Actually, yesterday we celebrated one of my aunt's birthday. It was the first time we did something formal besides weddings and funerals and it was really lovely. We got up and did the electric slide (what black family doesn't have the electric slide ) and the Cha-cha song (forgot what it is really called unless it's that). But yeah, it was great. One of my other aunts requested YMCA and everybody sat down. We're not a "YMCA" kinda family. lol But a lot of people were there. The pastor came up to me and asked in a smart way, "Do you have any challenging theological questions today?" and I told him, "I'm on break". At the time I wasn't sure whether to give him a dirty look or laugh. But I laughed and then gave my evil look later. He got offended the first time b/c I asked simple questions one time when I went to church for "Family Day". But I still like him anyway. ;D I whispered over to a cousin next to me and told him what happend. Then I said, "The devil is always a lady in a red dress, but I didn't know he was going to be here!" Hehe... I really was wearing a red dress.
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