Wow was that trip great! Went up to North Jersey. Saw my old neighborhood. Yes the rumors were true my old Catholic elementry school where I went from K thru 8 was a Muslim school. Sister Rapparata must be rolling in her grave. Also, St Micheal's school which was Christofer Columbus school in its life as a public school was gone, leveled, as well as the convent and the whole rest of the block. Wow what changes! Drove to my old high school. Man, looks like the place was neglected for years. It was too bad.
Had lunch at Rutt's Hut. A great little roadside place in Clifton that sells... well deep fried hot dogs. Not like a corn dog, no batter just a big wiener dropped into the fryolater. It comes out wrinkly and crunchy just right. I had two with their mustard relish.
We found the elks club and then the hotel. We had to have a nap before the big night! Ha!
Got dressed and went to the lobby and stared meeting old classmates. We took the shuttle to the elks club as if we wanted to have a few we would not have to drive. Well there were a couple of events at the hotel that night. A bunch of the alums go into the shuttle and it took off running thru the backstreets. When we arrived the was a problem though. The driver took us to a wedding! Arugh! Well, I'm sure the bride was surprised that we hijacked her shuttle! The driver finally realised what he did and took us to the elks. He the drove off to get an earful from a new bride!
There were about 100 out of 220 alums there! Wow it was great! Everyone was talking and dancing and drinking. There was food there but everyone hardly ate as the were talking, greeting and catching up. The event lasted to 1am then we headed back to the hotel in the shuttle. ( I guess he was set straight! ) and Marilyn went to bed. I stayed up with about 30 other people and talked and laughed to the wee hours of the morning.
Marilyn and I had breakfast in the morning at a diner with Karen and tried to have coffee and tea to shake off the lack of sleep!