Lil and Ron have been going down to Uncle John and Aunt Dee's house in Lacey's Spring for a few years now, always at the beginning of May. This year we added Ginny and Frank, Hope and Tom, and Chuck and Barb, to make it the biggest family reunion we have had for quite a while. I arrived on May 2 concurrently with a huge rain and thunder storm. The small jet I was on hit some large air pockets upon arriving at the Huntsville airport. Uncle John and Jimmy were there to meet me, and we found Uncle John's car without a problem at all!
Lil and I slept at Uncle John's house, while the rest of the crew stayed at the Radisson and the Hilton Garden Inn. There were to be excursions to Nashville on this trip but they were all cancelled because of the torrential rain in Nashville. Some parts of Nashville got 11 inches of rain in one day. By Monday, the rain cleared up, but Nashville was still a disaster area, so we all stayed close by in Huntsville. We all went to the Huntsville Space and Rocket Center, except for Uncle John and Aunt Dee. The Center is being remodeled and will eventually have a large Star Wars exhibit.
Several of us also visited the Weeden House museum. It was the house that Howard Weeden (a woman) lived where she was famous for her penned drawings of slaves. We also visited the Constitution Village. It was an entirely reconstructed group of buildings used to write the Alabama constitution in 1822.
On the last day of our visit, we had a barbeque at Uncle John and Aunt Dee's house in Lacey's Spring. After years of Lil telling me about the actor Gary Grubbs, who she was agent for many years ago, I finally got to meet him. He is a big guy of about 6' 3" and has that Southern sheriff kind of drawl. He is currently involved in the movie "Dirty Girl", did many episodes of "Will and Grace" and has numerous credits all the way back to the 70's. Uncle John brought his guitar and sound equipment out on the deck and he sang at least 20 songs. I made a couple of movie clips which I put on YouTube and are linked from this website.