The 2012 Waite family reunion

This last weekend was Carols family reunion. Every year, since 2008 we've had a family reunion at The Lodi Tower Park KOA. Every year the vast majority of the Waite clan have attended what has become an annual event.

The gathering is usually held on the first weekend of October. We chose this KOA in Lodi for several reasons. For one thing, the KOA is centrally located to majority of the family. It's within 2 hours of virtually all of the family who live in Northern California. Another reason is because this campground is big and has a number of Cabins and camp sites all grouped together. The KOA is also set up very nicely with a great little store, a dog park, a water park for the kids and an adult swimming pool area.

This year, as always, the majority of the family showed up on Friday night. Sandy and Bill were the consoument hosts by having a hamburger and hot dog feed. Bill and Doug did a great job at preparing the burgers and dogs. All in all, the food and the company was great on Friday night.

 

Saturday morning we started a series of games which included a water balloon toss, egg race, three legged race. After the warm up games are complete, we have the annual tug of war. The previous two years, the team headed up by Sandy, the eldest Waite, has been victorious. Check out the video about the family reunion below to see if Sandy's team made it a Three-pete! :-)



After the team games are wrapped up and all of the winners determined, we had the annual Horse shoe competition. This time, it was a test to see if Bill and Kevin could Three-pete on their winning of the horse shoe competition.

Unfortunately, Bill and Kevin we de-throned as the champions of the Horse Shoe competition. Once all of the games were done, we all gathered for the group feed bag in the amphitheater.

One of the best parts of the Family reunion for Carol and I was the fact that Katie and Russ spent Saturday night and really got a chance to enjoy the more of the Family reunion experience. They brought their dog Mack along, who you see posing with Carol and lily in our Motorhome!

This was the first year that Carol and I took Monday off so that we could enjoy the peacefulness of Sunday with just Sandy, Bill and a few others after the rest of the family left. Once again, we had another wonderful family reunion. And, the beauty is, we got to enjoy it with still enjoying the comfort of our own bed, every night, 'cause we are full timing in our Alegro Bus Motorhome!

Happy camping! - Eric and Carol -