Ramona & the Reid Family

Today I was delightfully awaken by the ASEOP ( automated sub teacher program) calling my phone at 3:30 AM this morning seeing if I wanted to work a job out in TX. Yay, 2 hour time difference! I was hoping to be lazy since I am alone with no kids and try to catch up on rest. So much for that idea. I did fall back to sleep and woke up at 7:30 AM ready to start with my day. I called around to the old family friends that I grew up with and made plans with whom I was going to visit with and then had to jump on the computer to get my driving directions. I was a little unsure of getting back on to the Los Angeles freeways again.
I headed out to Alhambra to meet up with Carol Platz a long time family friend of my mother, Cecelia, that way I could chat with her, and get a personal tour of my high school a day before the reunion so that I would not be lost when I came on Saturday . Carol gave me a tour of the school and it was a real shock to see how different the place was. The 100 year old building (that was at the heart of Ramona) was badly damaged my senior year with the October quake of 1988. That was the last time that build would be standing. I shared the many photos of my family and children with her and we a good 2 hour visit.
Afterwards I made my way up through South Pasadena and then to Pasadena to visit with Joan Reid and her family. After a greeting of many hugs and screams of joy from Rhonda, Michelle, and Joanie (with grandson in tow) we went inside and taked, looked a photos, and did what we could to get caught up on the 15 years since I had last seen them. It was such a delight. Chirstopher Reid, Joanie's eldest son, and a guy who was like a brother to me, (we had a love/torment kind of friendship growing up) walked through the door. It was such a surprise. The youngest son, Johnathon also showed up and seeing him was the biggest shock to me; I remember him as this little annoying skinny brother of Michelle, not the handsome man he has grown into. Now I felt old. I finally left their home after many more hugs and all the email, and contact numbers exchanged and made my drive back up to Newhall. It was great day of visiting. Tomorrow was my reuion lunch and I was excited to see my other freinds from 20 years ago.
Me with the Reid family, Joan, Johnathon, Emanuel, Michelle, Daniel, new baby boy, & Rhonda. Photo of Chris and I.