Last weekend we took a road trip to just outside Louisville for a family reunion. The gathering was rather small, only nine of us, but we had a good time despite a lot of technical glitches where things kept trying to derail our event. Forgetting an adapter for hooking up the computer monitor, the wireless USB adapter for the computer didn’t have the driver installed and the disk was at home of course, but the biggest was that the hotel said we never confirmed the reservation for the meeting room and they had already given it out to someone else! Of course they told me this Saturday afternoon (we arrived on Friday) and so scrambling around to all the hotels around use we found not a single meeting room available for the next day.

When the assistant manager came to work on Sunday morning we finally worked it out where we could use their breakfast area  off the lobby for our gathering and of course we couldn’t use their projector because it was locked up in the manager’s office and he was out of the state and didn’t trust any of his staff to have a key I guess. We scrambled around again and finally found a large screen TV that had a VGA connection and hooked the computer up to that to show the video I prepared for the reunion. Despite all the problems we did have a great time and learned a bit more about the history of my dad’s side of the family.

One of the most interesting thing I learned was that the tommyhawk, used during frontier times and made from iron or steel, was invented by one of my ancestors, Thomas was his first name and the first part comes from it “Tommy” and the second part from the Indians because it flew like a Hawk. My cousin Rosasharon Harper, who has been doing a lot of research on the family discovered that in some of her research.

We picked the location of the reunion so people that wanted to could visit the Kentucky Renaissance Fair in Eminece, Ky during the weekend and we all enjoyed it a lot. I’ve posted a gallery below of some of the images I shot during the weekend for your viewing pleasure.

All things considered the trip turned out really well and a great time was had by all those who made it. We’ve already started planning next year’s reunion.