Next Friday, Brett & I will travel down to Morristown, NJ for my aunt & uncle's 50th wedding anniversary party. They are renewing their vows. It's a pretty special occasion, as my aunt has been fighting stage III aggressive breast cancer the past year & a half and seems to be winning.
My NJ cousins are CRAZY. Every year around Labor Day weekend, they throw a huge family clambake in one of their backyards. They rent cotton candy & popcorn machines, cook an unfathomable amount of food, and build a waterslide.
Now, I don't think they're doing all this for the wedding weekend, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had something similarly over-the-top planned.
Here's some pictures of the last clambake I went to. Maybe later I'll post the photos of the fudge fight we had in one of our hotel rooms at the last family wedding.
(No euphemism- it really was candy fudge.)
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Under the tent, looking out at the slide.
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Aunt Mary Margaret & cousin Maggie II, with the top of the waterslide in the background.
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Looking down the slide into the "pool" at the end.
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| Yes, the big kids go down the slide too. It's a point of honor. |
OHMYGOSH IAM SOOOO jealous :)
ReplyDeleteThey love to have parades too. One time they led a parade around the block at my parents' house. My oldest cousin Mike led with a toilet plunger for a staff. My aunt mary margaret wore my brother's bear claw slippers & pigeon hat. My mom put one of my sister's dance costume sparkly pillbox hats on my uncle's head- he grabbed this old tin cup they had & they followed the parade like an organ grinder & her monkey. I think my cousin Susan & I followed on our rollerskates with my dog. We were always a sight for the neighbors.
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