Murray Reunion July 16 -18 2009

On July 16th we went to Portland to a family reunion of my parents’ descendants. There was a direct flight from Calgary to Portland that didn’t formerly exist, so we drove to Calgary, caught the flight, arrived in Portland, rented a car and joined the family at Lewisville Park, north of Vancouver, Washington. Of the 104 descendants we had 52 people. Edward, Darwin and Jeremy and families were there. Ross Paulette, Riley & Megan attended. Joan’s family that attended were Sandy (he and Carol hosted), Daniel, Lesley, Chris, Joral, & April.

The activities included visiting the Astoria Tower and the Beach at Seaside (in the fog).Saturday we had lunch in the park, supper at Sandy & Carols and had a group picture taken in the tie-dyed shirts we had fashioned the first day of the reunion.

Tie-dying

Granchildren at the park - Austen, Jackson, Lincoln and Miranda Baines

View from the Austoria Column

The Astoria Column - I climbed all the way to the top!

Another view from the top of the Column

Rock Band was a big hit at Sandy's home in Vancouver, Washington

A stream through the park

Ice Blocking

Up the hill carrying the ice

The reunion attendees posing in their tie-died shirts

End of the reunion