ANOTHER LUNCHEON

Last week the ’57 “girls” got together again for a luncheon, this time traveling all the way to Gallatin for our get together. We had another wonderful time gathering at Fairvue, an antebellum plantation home that had a restaurant in the back of it. Actually, it was a club house for the country club and subdivision that had been built around it. (Trust us Americans to do that to a beautiful old home.) The house itself is occupied, so we couldn’t go inside, but we had a wonderful time catching up with each other again.

Lou had the most interesting experience to tell us. She and her son and his wife and two children had just gotten back from a three week visit to China to get an adopted baby girl. She had brought pictures of the baby, of course, who was precious, and also of the city Quanjo where they had spent most of the three weeks. I was particularly interested because Quanjo is the one city in China I had visited when I had gone to Hong Kong. They stayed in the very same 5 star hotel we had eaten lunch in, the one where we had to ask for napkins and they brought us one for seven people! Lou said they never brought them one and some places even charged for napkins, so they just learned to take their own packages of tissues when they ate out.

Again I was very pleasantly surprised at myself because I enjoyed seeing everyone so much, even those whom I thought I didn’t particularly like in high school. Or to be really truthful, those that I thought didn’t like me. I hope all of you readers don’t wait fifty years like I did to put any petty experiences you had at that age behind you. Words can’t express how free I feel from a burden I apparently carried around with me for years!

Below is a shot of us gathering in front of the club house.