I’m not the kind of person who plans, nor am I the kind of person that organizes everything, but I’m ok with that. I think it’s awesome when someone can sit down and plan things out and organize their life. My sister-in-law is one of those people, she can plan and organize like nobody’s business. If you give her a couple of hours she can organize your entire life into one agenda book and have all your stuff labeled in little boxes. Unfortunately I’m the total opposite, I’m not saying I’m a slob. I’m just saying I don’t plan or organize, I just take things as they come - that’s why bringing this whole family reunion together was so difficult for me.

I was glad when I got a call from someone at one of the hotels asking me about the reunion and telling me that if I choose their hotel to host it they would help with all the planning. I know that any other hotel casinos would have done the same thing but after meeting with overweight old men, old women who sounded like men because of their smoking habit, and a woman without a left hand - it was nice to show up at the property and see a hot young girl working the sales department. Almost right away I agreed to host the reunion at the property. She showed me the rooms, the banquet hall and gave me some tips on what I should do to make the reunion more memorable for the people coming from out of state. And let’s be honest, who would you rather meet with on a constant basis to plan things; a fat man, an old lady that is coughing out a lung, a woman without a left hand, or a tall, blond with huge boobs? That’s what I thought.

If you’ve read my other family reunion posts you know that a lot of my family members are religious, so now when I type the words boobs or ass, I feel a little naughty. Is it a sin to talk about boobs and ass? I know it’s in the bible, how do you think Eve got Adam to bite into the apple - she used her boobs and ass to lure him into sin. I think it’s ok to write about boobs and ass and my family no matter how religious they are should be ok with it - how does that saying go ‘he who is without sin cast the first stone”

I’ll admit that religion played a big part in my growing years and it would play a big part in the family reunion. One of my cousins gave a prayer during the dinner portion of the reunion. I didn’t really get to hear the prayer because I was outside the banquet hall preparing the big surprise. Once the prayer ended the doors to the banquet room were thrown open and what came through them surprised many of the people in attendance.

Yes we had Stormtroopers at my family reunion. They stormed the dinner and brought in a large birthday cake for my sister and two of my cousins. My sister is not as crazy about Star Wars as I am but she still loves storm troopers - who doesn’t? It was crazy because after the initial shock everyone got up and started taking pictures of the stormtroopers as they took the cake to the middle of the dance floor. Most of the kids there were excited, except the little girl in the picture above on the right hand side. I think she's part of the rebel alliance and a tratior so she was screaming her head off. The rest of the people lined up to take pictures with The Empire's Finest..

As geeky as some people may think it was, I thought it was cool - and hey, if I ever plan anything you can bet it’s going to be casual and it’s going to have Star Wars in it somehow.

Final Family Reunion Dinner - Check


There are more pictures of the family reunion on my facebook page