2010 Family Reunion

(This is typed by Jolene , but the words are an email from Robert:)

"I am excited to host the reunion in Utah around the 4th of July because there is so much to do here in July.

I have a tentative outline for the 2 day -2 night reunion. Reyna's family has a big extended family reunion every year and the attitude of most people who travel from far is that they want to make the trip for several days if they are going to travel from outside of Utah. This makes a good plan for Friday- Saturday and then travel back on Sunday- Monday to their home.
- We are looking into a few different campsites near our home. We could use our home for preparing food and showers, and base camp. The campsite would be only 15 minutes our home. Group sites are hard to get for the 4th weekend so reserving 4-5 individual sites would probably do just fine. Each site allows two cars and 8 adults. So we could put two families in a site.


This is our thought on the schedule:

Arrive Friday day (afternoon?)- for a quick trip to SLC and the tour of temple square area or "This is the place Monument -park". Floating the Provo river in the late afternoon - you can rent tubes and we have several rafts too. it is a 1 hour float about 2 hours for the whole affair.

Saturday morning there is a hot air balloon festival in Provo followed by a pancake breakfast, then the big Freedom parade in Provo ( it has national attendance and state-wide participants) and then maybe water skiing on Utah Lake for the afternoon then BBQ dinner in the park (KFC) with the fireworks - Fireworks show will be on Saturday night in Utah. This is a Firework show like only few large cities have. The Kids can also light fireworks that are for sale everywhere.

The Holiday will be Monday and this will allow people to travel back home on Sunday or Monday. If people choose to stay Sunday they can visit temple square or other SLC sites , Great Salt lake, etc.

The cost would be$70 for each family. This would probably cover 4 meals (dinner and breakfast) and campsite for the couple days. We can plan the rest as we get people committed to come."

I think it sounds super fun!

We will send out fliers and stamped envelopes so you can get your money to Robert before May 1st (tentatively).