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Thursday, July 7, 2011

Family Reunion in VA Beach!

One, two, three...listen to me.  Recently we travelled to Virginia Beach for the Mandronico Family Reunion on Scott's mother's side of the family.  There were about 25 of us and we came from all over the place....Raleigh, Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle, and upstate NY.  We used to see everyone at weddings, but then we ran out of weddings.  So Marie and her sisters planned this family reunion and we all converged on Virginia Beach.

It has been a couple years since we have all been together and since then quite a few of us have had children.  Including Dylan, there were 5 kids at the reunion; all boys.  They booked us all together on the same floor of the hotel...which was fortunate; for those of you who remember Jon and Tara's wedding know that we almost got kicked out of that hotel for offending soccer moms who didn't appreciate our noise levels.  Aside from almost getting booted from an Irish Pub, we were are all very well behaved on this trip.  Oh we definitely had a few crazy moments...naked sleepwalking, strollers/kids galore, group family picture...to name a few.   But those were just entertaining stories.  The weekend really went off without a hitch.  Here are a few quotes that Scott's aunt and uncle put together of the weekend:


Steve: “Her jaw is permanently lubricated at the factory and she can go 5 minutes on any subject - give her a    topic...”


Tara: “ Jon, what are you doing?” 
Jon: “ I’m going to the bathroom.”  
Tara: “I don’t think you’ll find it in   the hallway!


Erin: “You want to take one of these kids home?  No problem - help yourself!”


Marie: “I love that Bryan, he dances to a different drummer!”

Bev: “He’s a drummer?  I thought he played the guitar!”
Bill: “Come on Bev - give me your hand, we have to go back to our room now!”


Marie: “Ron, take your shoes and socks off - how do you expect to get an even  tan?”
Ron: “Are you crazy, I don’t have anything on underneath.”


Bev:  "Are you sure I can go to the bar dressed like this?"
Jon:  "Well nothing says Italian like a track suit, Aunt Bev!"


Jayden, Dylan, Ashten, Caleb and Riley: “Wow! And they put these people in charge;  yeah, and this is only the beginning!”



It was such a good time that we didn't want to come home.  Here are some pictures from our fabulous weekend!
















1 comment:

  1. Oh my....it was an event alright! Actually we were "fairly" well behaved for being MY side of the family! It was such a good time that we are already talking about the next one!

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