Wednesday - Day 3 of Family Reunion

By Monday night, Kylie, Kathryn and I had figured out that we could get a pretty good nights sleep if we wore ear plugs and tried not to go to the bathroom too many times. But nothing could have helped us Tuesday night.
Between my having eaten three cloves of garlic, Kathryn's 7 fish, Jordan's worms and an extra helping of beans at dinner time for us all, our tent could have easily ignited at any time!!! And we laughed our heads off about it until well past midnight. The teenagers mentioned to us the next morning that they had no idea the Lott family was such a party family!!! Had they only known...
But we must have slept because Kylie and I jumped out of our tent at 8:30 in the morning to the loud sound of bellowing cows. We looked up at the mountain side and saw hundreds of cows being herded down the road by cowboys on horses but there seemed to be a hold up at the point of our pavilion. That caused some of the smaller cows to panic and start slipping off the side of the mountain. Kylie raced with her camera to try and catch it on video while all I was able to get was the last cowboy and his dog at the end of the trail. it was humorous to see some parents running and snatching up their young kids to safety while Jordan and Del were wanting to get on some horses and help with the cattle drive. Del mentioned later it was the best thing about reunion - made him feel right at home. Jordan just wanted on a horse.But by the time we got to breakfast, it was the talk of all the kids and parents. It couldn't have been planned better.
The morning was spent with decorating t-shirts and playing games...we had a Make a Million tournament and Kylie and Kathryn helped tons with the t-shirts. Between the two girls, I imagine they made over 50% of them, and they turned out wonderful. There were many thankful parents and kids.
Kylie and Kathryn had convinced Del that they couldn't go another night sleeping in a tent, so during the day, they helped Jordan and Del roll up sleeping bags, pack up suitcases and take down the camp and get our car completely packed so at the end of that night's activities, we would drive back into Alpine and stay at Lon's house again. I agreed, but only if we stayed and supported Rebecca's family game that night...
And it was the best decision of all. A Talent Night, but in a Variety Show format. The story of The Three Little Pigs was told and then we were all separated into 6 different groups to retell the story with props that had been provided.
The first group were all the girls under the age of 14 - they were the 'Chinese Girls' who told their story 'oriental style'. Cute Cute Cute.. Next, all boys under the age of 14 - 'The Rappers' - complete with percussion and symbols - 'Men in Black' performed next - Jordan's group - all dressed in black suits with water pistols as weapons - hilarious! Then Kylie and Kathryn's group - COWGIRL style - Kylie was the narrator in her Texan draaawwwlll - Kathryn came in on a pretend horse with Kylie's shoes giving the clippity clop sound - ADORABLE!!! Everyone just hooped and hollered over how cute it was done....My group was from Hawaii - so we put a twist on it and ended up turning on one of our pigs and had her for the luau - Then Del's group - which was several of the brother in laws and my brothers...FROM ACROSS THE BORDER - Mexican Style. I about pee'd my pants. They hammed it up like you wouldn't have believed, made easier by the fact that half of them spoke Spanish anyways from serving missions in Mexico!! And then living in California, 20 minutes from the Mexican border gave them an even better insight into portraying the perfect 'layed back Mexican lifestyle'. It absolutely was the highlight of the reunion. Thank heavens Kylie got the whole thing on her camera videotaped.
Finally, when the laughter died down, Rebecca went right into a dance with the best music - we danced the Macarena, YMCA, country dancing with Kylie showing the steps, the Hokey Pokey and we even had everyone participate in 'the limbo'. Our family had to sneak out early for the hour drive back, so we missed the very end of the evening of cooking samores and then the following morning of packing up and breakfast.