My 70th Birthday Bash

We had a 3-day family reunion at Camp Alpine. Highlights were canoing, hiking, playing at Libby's Leap, catching salamanders, a nature hike with Grandpa, making led bugs with Uncle Ken, archery with Grandpa, lots of good food, and just visiting. We saw a deer watching us from the meadow.

My favorite thing was  the talent  show on my birthday. My kids and grandkids  are so talented. Neil was an excellent MC. 

Jessica sang. Rachel recited a poem. Her sisters and mom also recited poetry.

Brenda's girls, Sydney and Maia, sang. Mike whistled.

Ken gave  the  humorous reading Grandpa Fugal used to give called "The Schoop Schovel" in a Swedish accent. 

Ken wrote a skit about two sister missionaries and  their experiences tracting. This was good for the non-members visiting from France--Jonathan's twin brother's family.

Jason did an interpretive dance about the zipline. 

Neil's family sang "Come, Come Ye Saints." 

Brenda sang two beautiful songs. A touching one was called "One Good Woman."

There was much more and we ended with dancing the Virginia Reel which I hope will be a yearly  tradition. I loved hearing my kids sing "My Heavenly Father Loves Me."

A popular activity was the zipline.  Mike spent a lot of time designing and installing it. Two men who are over Camp Alpine were there. We were afraid they would nix it, but they liked it, took pictures of it, and arranged to buy it from Mike for the cost of materials--$300.

I went down the zipline on my 70th birthday and here's a picture to prove it. Eldon went down it too.