Saturday July 30

 Saturday July 30


Up at 5 for no apparent reason. Moving by 645. Showered. Car packed. Fuelled up. Breakfast by 715 and gone by 730. Quick stop at Starbucks and off to Yorkton for the family reunion. Car ran great. Had to take a few back roads but ended up at Saltcoats by 10 and dropped Krista off at Mom and Dads Motorhome and I headed off to the Golf tournament. 

Lovely little 9 hole course - Best ball tourney. Our team of 2 adults and 2 kids did really well and ended up with Par 27! I hope it’s good enough for the win! 















Visited the owners of the golf club in their 116 year old house they are using as a clubhouse. Amazing! 













Meanwhile Krista went out for lunch and won $19 on a VLT! Lucky girl! 






We left the course and met everyone at Uncle Ewen’s and Aunt Shirley’s in Saltcoats for a great visit for a couple hours before heading over to the hall. 

We had a spectacular supper of roast beef and salads and desserts. 

An outstanding program with remembrance of those who had passed away with poems, prayers and bubble blowing outdoors with bagpipes and drums concluding. Back indoors for some family history followed by highland dancing from Lindsay, Anna and Abby doing a sword dance and then the girls did a solo each. 

Abby played a violin solo that was beautiful. Raffle prizes were given away to everyone and the 50/50 went to DARREN! $110! Yahoo! 

We did some dancing for an hour which was lots of fun! Dang some Karaoke songs and then the golf announcement came - TEAM MOROZ MORRISON FIRST PLACE! 

No prize - just the honour of winning the first annual Morrison Reunion Golf Tournament!! 

We headed into Yorkton and found our dirt cheap motel and called it a night pretty quickly after a very long day. Such a fun reunion! Wonderful experiences and memories made. 


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