We leave tomorrow for italy.l. spent the day cleaning up from all the prep we’ve been doing on the house. MId morning my cousin’s Mark and Kathy came by the house.  They were in town for a freinds daugheters wedding. 41 years ago Mark showed up at our house and introduced himself as my cousin.. His grandmother Keenie was my great great aunt (she’s top left in this picture alonmg with my two other great aunts gussie and freydie.. amd my grandmother in the bottom left.. not sure wh that is in the upper right).  

  She’s second from  left in  bottom row here.. my sister and grandmotehr in teh upper left. 

We had a good time marveling at how liong we’ve known each other.. we went to their wedding.

 

They came to ours (editors mnopte.. I was just trying to find a picture of them at our wedding and ended up spending a half hour looking at our wedding pictures.. got so wrappewd up in them I forgot what I was doing.. so great looking at those pics with all that family.. I realllllly love diane 🙂 

 

Anyway.. very glad to see  mark and kathy  

Great catching up !

 

Later on in the day.. Linda and david showed up. THey drove up to vermont so that we could start the Italy trip together . We’re leaving tomorrow and are so excited !

nite all, nite sam 

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