08/07/19 - On 8/1 - I left Philip's house at 6:22 am to head for the airport.  Since it was that time of the morning and traffic could be bad, they gave me directions to take the back roads.  I did do that but then missed an exit and drove out of the way for about 15 minutes but I did get to the airport in plenty of time and then soon learned that we are delayed because we are waiting for an aircraft to come in.  We were delayed for at least an hour.  I had a direct flight so once in the air we arrived in Cleveland.  Aunt Esther was in the cell phone lot waiting for me.  When we got to her house, we made sausage gumbo for dinner.  It was wonderful.  The rest of the evening was quiet.

8/2, Michael (her son) and grandson Luca came over for a few minutes before we were planning to head down to Rosedale for the reunion.  Luca is 4 years old so was anxious to get leave since his Dad promised him to go to some type of children's playground.  We did get a family picture and it turned out very nice.  Aunt Esther ran some errands and we left for Rosedale which was a little over a two hour.  We did not get very far, when traffic was stopped up ahead and there was a truck on fire.  We could see everything going on because we were the 5 car in line.  The truck was doing some exploding and popping and burning like crazy.  Eventually, the fire truck appeared and about an hour later we were on the road again.  We got to Rosedale, found our dorm room and then went to the student center where sandwiches were served.  During most of that evening, we did alot of visiting as family members arrived all evening. 

8/3, I was up early since breakfast was served.  We then did more visiting.  I was scheduled to help prep the lunch meal but Aunt Esther also helped.  We did a lot of eating and visiting.  The families that were there took some pictures.  At 2:00 pm, we had a very nice memorial service for Aunt Kay and the community was invited so we got to see extended family which was very good.  After the memorial service, we served some fresh fruit cups, cookies, coffee and tea.  In the evening, I helped again to prep for dinner which included pizza, salad, ice cream. We did more family pictures and  more visiting and finally to bed.

8/4, I skipped breakfast.  We had a morning worship service, then lunch.  Some family members already started to leave since they had a rather long drive.  We had a little family meeting and the committee that took care of the reunion this year, have been voted in to do it again in three years.
Since Aunt Esther and I had only 2 hours we helped do some cleaning up, then packed up and left.  Not sure what time.  On the way home, we once again, sat in stand still traffic for about an hour and when we finally moved, we learned there had been another vehicle fire that was completely charred.  We unpacked and relaxed the rest of the evening.