Various Lessons Learned

Bill McLuskie:
Well, wouldn't you know it, AndyMike would be the first to post. Everyone else is still asleep! I had to call my boss and tell him that I had a major case of "post-reunion exhaustion" and I'd see him tomorrow.

Lessons Learned:

1. The Class of 84! We were tight in high school, and even though we're spread out around the world, we are even closer now.

2. Play the game! The "scavenger hunt" was a blast. Definitely the start of a new tradition.

3. As we've grown our conversations have changed. I will never forget sitting in Denny's and talking about everyone's children, breast feeding and vasectomies (ouch).

4. A special thanks to all of my dancing partners, both old and new! Dancing is definitely a great way to renew friendships and start new ones.

.....billy-mac

Debbie Murray Williams:

8. There is such a thing as too many vodka cranberries...

9. You CAN fit at least 10 people in a rental car...

10. Traci Crawford CAN convince an elevator full of police officers to pretend like they are arresting us...

11. You CAN get lost for hours looking for a Denny's that is only supposed to be one mile away...

12. You can live for 4 days on 1 hour of sleep a night...

13. Your friends (i.e.LAURA) do look exactly the same after 16 years!...

14. You can get 4 girls sharing a room through the bathroom in 2 hours or less...

15. You can have a good time even if your brother is there!! :)

Traci '83:
Lesson's learned...

1. Chris Zeitvogel '83 will probably not be asked to sing the National Anthem at the opening of the World Series.

2. Pear body spray can not be used as hair gel.

3. It was only James's thumb.

4. You only have to lean a little ways over the third story wall in order to scare Leslie.

5. Jennifer Starrett is a wonderful woman.... I owe you one!!

6. Debbie Murray and Jim Nies have that "80's dance" perfected.

7. Imitating yard work can be considered dancing... how about it, Mark? Ernie? Theresa?

8. Some of those new dancing partners are the best!!!

Cynthia Houston:

1. I wasn't really paid to throw the game for a Kubasaki win; fact is if it weren't for Sean A. I'd have been the most visually-challenged person there.

2. Most interesting person met: Liz Baldin (and I know how to pronounce that).

3. Allison Foster would never have ripped her shirt off, no matter what she says.

4. Too little time, too little time, too little time.

5. If your former teacher asks you a question concerning an area of expertise you now share, are you still getting an unspoken F if you answer wrong?

6. Reunions double as great places to meet up with family members who can't get their butts to the East Coast.

7. Meeting your school friends' children is a remarkable experience.

8. Quad Ponsford hasn't changed one iota since the day I first saw him in 1979, or was it '78?

9. Don't try to fight Valerie Durbin over a trundle bed.

10. There is still only one way to dance to 80s music - but it's still a lot of fun.