The cousins' reunion went very well! The majority of us are pretty much strangers to each other, but the family tie overcame any awkwardness that could have resulted and it was a lot of fun learning more about each other, seeing some old family photos, playing billiards, visiting and EATING and EATING SOME MORE!!!! There was a fair amount of baking but our small group ate an awful lot today. I came home with only a few squares of almond cake and less than half of the banana loaf. The remaining honey/cinnamon cookies went home with one of the cousins with the instructions to send him the recipe right away. hahaha My husband helped us break the ice by having each person share a Christmas memory and while most were reluctant at first to do any such thing, one or two were brave enough to start us out and it went very well from there. Everyone in the room had a tale to share, some of them absolutely hilarious and some very heart warming.
The prelude to the reunion went not so well. I went outside promptly at 1:15pm to warm up the car and discovered the battery dead as a duck under the hood. We were not going anywhere at all!! AAAAARGH!! Why today!!???? Sigh........ Fortunately we were able to reach our travelling family before they got to the city and they came by to give us enough of a boost to get us to the reunion. As soon as we arrived and unpacked our food contributions my husband took the car over to Canadian Tire and purchased a new battery. There was a line up at the service bay, so he paid big bucks to get a super duper party pooper variety and brought it home in the boot. He and his brother in law will install it tomorrow prior to their Star Wars movie committment. Brother in law has one of those wonderful rigs that has an independent charger on it, so it can be hooked on without having to put our cars nose to nose to make battery cables reach....impossible with the parking situation here anyway. No second car necessary at all to use this wonderful invention. Had it not been such a long wait for the AMA battery booster truck we could have done that as well, but we would have missed the reunion completely. So glad to have relatives who understand that these things happen and who had no problem coming all the way to our place and then to the party, which was happening back closer to where they first entered the city. Thank you family!!
The car started up just fine to bring us home again after the party. Whew! For all the good plugging it in will probably do, it is plugged in once again in our parking spot for the night. Our family has gone to check into their hotel and then will come back over to visit and to decide if anyone beside me needs to eat supper after such a full afternoon of snacking on those sweets, cheese, crackers, sausage, fudge, and caesar salad with the most amazing home made dressing!!
Other than the temporary upset over the battery, it has been a marvellous, if cold, Boxing Day 2017.
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