Ostriches Look Funny: Random Faces to You, History to Us: My High School Reunion

I just went to my 10 year High School reunion.

When I went to high school, I was known for my fashion sense and my sophistication...

Anyway, High School Reunion. I was really excited about it. Our High School class was small and awesome. Enough said.

Or maybe not enough said, because I have so much more to say.

People were really excited to be there. I think it had something to do with the fact that they got personalized name tags with their senior yearbook photo on it.

Not much has changed. As soon as I got there, I felt compelled to run around, be noisy and loud and yell and shove people and hug people and be outspoken. They put up with me anyway. Thanks guys.

I was supposed to plan the reunion, owing to the fact that I had been Senior Class President. Ha.

I left the responsible stuff to Miss "Best All Around".

Everyone knows that the "Most Outspoken" are good at bossing people around, not planning.

This is Miss "Best All Around". She did all the monkey work. I took a piece of gum from her that night without asking, we're that close. I think I've borrowed roughly 273 pencils from her over the years...and I never returned them.

Let's play a game. It's called, "Try To Take A Picture With Someone Who's Wearing A Giant Tulle Rose In Their Hair".

Sharon, your hair accessory looks like a bowl that's tipping into my ear.

They're a cute couple, but sometimes fashion comes between them. Haha!

The banquet hall next to ours was hosting a twenty year reunion. That group had hired a bagpiper. They were all standing around, being sophisticated and talking like adults...a real snore fest.

We were the crazy reunion; we had Tom, and rap music, and Sharon's giant hair accessory, and um, most of us hung in there until at least 10 p.m.

The guy in the white shirt even offered to learn how to break dance for our 20 year reunion. Can't wait to see that Clint!

Okay so let's play another game. Let's see how awesome I am at taking pictures of flower centerpieces:

I think I really captured the reds and yellows of this bouquet. I also like how I framed the shot with Jake and Tom in the background, giving this a human element.

I see you all the time Adam and Kayla! Stop messing with my coffee carafe shot!

Okay, here's one last game for you. Guess who went to the reunion on their sixth wedding anniversary?

Guess who won the impromptu "Longest Married Couple" competition?

Derrick and I prank called him once in college. We pretended to be a radio station and we asked him to name two songs from the eighties.

Guess what we talked about at the reunion? Guess who didn't remember the whole event? Guess who thought it was funny anyway?

Here's my class, baby! We are either taking a picture for Gary McDaniel's mom, or we are shouting our school cheer in this shot. I'm not sure.

I'm inclined to believe it was the school cheer shot, since our mouths are open.

Because, well, he asked us to...because she was the school math teacher.

I guess she wanted to remember some of her students.

I doubt she wanted to remember me. Cute as I was, I wasn't academically inclined.

But, thanks to her I can sing the Quadratic Equation to the tune of Jingle Bells.

So, that in a nutshell was my High School Reunion. I'm already missing folks, and I think we need to get together more often. Maybe we should go camping, or to the zoo, or have a BBQ or something.

I feel truly blessed to have gone to school with these people. They are funny and goofy and generally good looking. They are friendly. It was great to see them all. Go Redskins!