The Good Life In Atlanta
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Where Shirley lives. Renting 20 something yrs.
Where Tence lives. Recently bought. Shirley and Tence live about 37 miles from each other.
Finally camping where there is a WI-FI. Been to Atlanta GA and left, been to Alexandria VA and left. Now am in Scarborough ME, that is about 2 hours from Bucksport ME. In Bucksport will visit with high school buddy Bob Gomes. Will probably be in Maine till about 29 Aug.
Visiting family in Atlanta was a lot of fun. An impromptu family gathering occurred. Almost all where there, missing where Dorothy in Ft Lauderdale, Norine near Tampa, Joyce in Canton Ohio, Gerardus Johannes in San Diego CA, and grandnephew Joseph near Atlanta. Jacques came from Sacramento CA, Elsbeth and her family came from LA CA, and Frans and his family came from near Tampa. The rest (Shirley, Tence, Lucy, and niece RoseAnn and her family) live here near Atlanta. One more, a cousin that we had never met, Maria Cecilia Smith (1st cousin once removed), also lives near Atlanta. She lives about 37 miles from Shirley and Tence. Maria Cecilia Smith is the daughter of a first cousin in Venezuela. She also has the same last name as Shirley.
Center: Cousin Maria Cecilia, at her left is her mother-in-law, at her right is sis Lucy, and in the back is nephew Michael.
This 3 year old is none other than our grandniece, Jenna Rose, daughter of RoseAnn.
Cassandra holding Shirley’s grandson, AJ, son of Alexander and Amanda, and Fransie daughter of Frans is in the back.
This gathering produced over a hundred photos and a few movies taken with digital cameras. Lots of photos and the movies were taken under very low light conditions. A good thing about not having had access to WI-FI, was that lots of time was spent tweaking the brightness and contrast of the photos and movies so that they could be enjoyed.
OK, the WI-FI here is good for getting email and light internet use. However, uploading the blog and photos to my gallery is next to impossible. So will have to wait till I get a better WI-FI to upload to the photo gallery and post links here of this family gathering.
Am now in Bucksport, Maine, I will hangout here for a few days visiting Bob Gomes. I am at a bookstore in town (very small town), but it has a fast WI-FI. So here are links to the photos (Click on each link):
The movies from Banda’s at Dorothy’s and the Family Dinner will have to wait for another blog.
I left home (FL) at 18, so never got to see my younger siblings grow-up and become who they are. After one week of hanging around with my siblings, I can say, they are a lot fun ... !