southern cali whirlwind tour part 2: "gramma kay"

jon's 20th high school reunion was in palm springs. grandma kay and anna (11 year old "neice" of sorts) watched hana while we went to the party. the day before, we drove from oakland to palmdale. on this day, we drove from palmdale to joshua tree, to pick up kay and anna (about 2+ hours) and then drove from joshua tree to palm springs (about another hour). hana handled these long drives like a champ. hana enjoyed her time with anna, and anna was great with her. they really had a good time together. it's too bad they live in southern california because anna could make a mint baby sitting for us. hana was really taken with "gramma kay" as well, and grandma kay seemed equally charmed by hana. kay hadn't seen hana since she was 8 weeks old (it's hard for her to travel these days) it was a really treat to see the two of them get reaquainted.

in fact, hana has so much fun, she literally passed out at 6:00 p.m. after snapping this picture, we put her pajamas on and she didn't even wake up! well, until about 9:00 p.m. but then she was pretty mellow and watched tv with anna for a little while before falling back to sleep (we were at the reunion party at that point).
in case you're interested, the reunion was super fun. it's great to see jon's friends at these things because he went to catholic school for 13 years, so of course there are fantastic stories. but the best part is that much of the juicy stories are the grade school ones... there were about a dozen people in jon's senior class that he'd known since kindergarten, and many more still that he'd known since grade school. they all had such affinity for one another they really weren't super cliquey... which is SO unlike my high school experience. i think i was the only spouse that was also at the 10 year which was kind of interesting too. his classmates remembered me well (better than i them) and regarded me fondly as a "cool chick". it's kinda weird to fit in better with school mates that i didn't actually go to school with... and didn't meet until 10 years ago. all in all, it was a fun party.