[speaker001:] what experience have you had with family reunions
[speaker002:] well actually uh oh the last eight or ten years I have an aunt and I I should say have like done our family reunion and uh oh you know we send out letters to everybody and we rent a place in this uh savings and loan in a in a little town
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh then everybody brings a covered dish and that sort of thing and uh it's real nice because my mother uh had seven brothers and sisters and if we didn't do this like the cousins would never see each other the aunts and uncles that's the type family reunion we've had there you know so uh you know if we found you know the years we don't do that nobody nobody sees each other because everybody lives in different places you know
[speaker001:] huh that's really good yeah my mom my mom's family is all  my family is really scattered out so if we didn't have family reunions we simply would never see each other for example um my my parents live in Seattle Washington
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] however all of my mom's and relatives and family are from Utah
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and all of my dad's uh relatives and family are from Oregon so we we usually have family reunions once a year and we'll go to Utah and uh go to Oregon um  my mom puts a big deal into the family reunion when they go to Utah um and um she sometimes plans them and and sometimes helps in planning them usually um Southern Utah is so hot that um we pick there's the they rent out this cabin that's up on a mountain I mean you have to go up into the hills to get some cooler temperatures and have a enjoyable time
[speaker002:] oh uh-huh
[speaker001:] and that's what we usually do and then have of course the food is one of the highlights also
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah everybody fixes their specialty or whatever
[speaker001:] uh yeah
[speaker002:] yeah well it really in your case and mine too uh I guess in most everybody's as far as especially more distant relatives you know uh cousins aunts and uncles and so on you just wouldn't see them if you didn't do something like that well my immediate family like on my side uh has gotten large because there's four of us and now we've all had children and now we all have grandchildren so that makes just my immediate family like thirty people so we do a separate reunion and we have a lake house uh about seventy miles from here so we we've done it once we all get together down there and um that works out real well because there's a lot well lot of things everybody can do they can fish or they can you know swim or things like that
[speaker001:] yeah I know at the the family reunions on my dad's side that we go to in Oregon um we usually um have it at a park and so you know swimming is always part of one of the activities so
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh well it really doesn't much matter where where or how you do it as long as you manage to do it every how often did like your families up there have them
[speaker001:] oh there's a there's a family reunion reunion um once a year um for for each for my father's side and for my mother's side I know and my wife also um so they try when they have family reunions they don't have them as regularly but when they do they try and make big deal out of it and usually have you know something like a talent show or
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] um each family um does something um yeah
[speaker002:] yeah we have taken like old home movies from you know twenty five thirty years ago and and shown them at the family reunion
[speaker001:] yeah my mom my grandma also has some we haven't particularly shown those at the reunions but my grandma has some home movies and we ever whenever we go to her house we like to see those those are you know nice for memories
[speaker002:] uh-huh we finally put ours on tape a few years ago there's places now that do that and uh it really is nice when you when because you can get on one tape you can get about thirty or forty old reels you know
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] on there and it and then you can skip around and find what you want and all that it really has uh worked out good
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] so uh so how did you get on the TI thing